Michael J. Fox, 61, continues to struggle with Parkinson’s. The disease, diagnosed in 1991, when the actor was at the height of his career, launching the third film in the “Back to the Future” trilogy, has shown signs of progress. He does not hide that it has been difficult to deal lately with symptoms such as tremors, muscle stiffness, movement and coordination problems, changes in speech and writing. “I’m not going to lie. It’s getting hard, it’s getting harder. Every day it’s harder,” he said.
The actor even revealed in an interview with CBS’s “CBS Sunday Morning” program in the United States that he thinks his end is near. “Yes, it’s knocking on the door. I mean, I’m not going to lie it’s going to hurt,” he commented. “You don’t die from Parkinson’s. You die from Parkinson’s. So I’ve been thinking about the mortality of that. I’m not turning 80.”
Fox also talks about other health issues he has been facing. “I had surgery on my spine. I had a tumor on my spine and it was benign, but it interfered with my walking. I started breaking ‘things’. I broke this arm, I broke this arm, I broke this elbow. I broke my face. I broke my hand, who is a big killer with Parkinson’s,” he said.
Michael, who has been married since 1988 to actress Tracy Pollan and the two are the parents of four children: Sam, 33, twins Aquinnah and Schuyler, 28, and Esmé, 21, revealed his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 1998, seven years after discovering the disease. In the 2000s, he started the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, an institution that invests in studies for the disease and has since raised more than $1.5 billion. “I was told I only had ten years left to work. That was a lie. The hardest part of my diagnosis was dealing with the certainty of the illness and the uncertainty of the situation.”
The actor went on to tell about the disease. “I just knew it was going to get worse. The diagnosis was final, but the progress was elusive and uncertain. My wife Tracy made it clear that she was with me the whole time. So I went into seven years of denial, trying to figure it all out. The kid who left Canada convinced he could make anything happen, at least by working hard and believing, now had a daunting task ahead of him.”
Source: Folha
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