A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future... by Michael J. Fox

He said he later learned “others were isolated and didn’t have a central unifying force that would be their advocate. He then got sober and went public with his diagnosis.) He also spoke about the period after he was diagnosed - and how he “spent seven years keeping it to myself, not telling anybody and not learning about it.” (It was during that time he drank heavily. You've got to behave in a way that promotes that.” You can't wait for things to be great and then be grateful for that. “Because you don't just receive optimism. “If you don't think you have anything to be grateful for, keep looking,” he said. It was repaired with 19 screws and a metal plate. Then, four months after surgery, he fell at home and shattered his left arm. I mean, I’m sailing a ship on stormy seas on the brightest of days.”Īn especially stormy time in his life was 2018, when surgeons partially removed a benign tumor that had wrapped around his spinal cord. “It’s what you can’t see - the lack of an inner gyroscope, of a sense of balance, of peripheral perception. On any given day, my hands could be barely shaking or they could be ,” he said. People often think of Parkinson’s as a visual thing, but the visuals of it are nothing. It’s weird that I’ve done as well as I have for as long as I have. I wouldn’t begin to compare my experience to that of a working guy who gets Parkinson’s and has to quit his job and find a new way to live. And because I have assets, I have access to things others don’t. But the disease is this thing that’s attached to my life - it isn’t the driver. Some days are more difficult than others. “It’s hard to explain to people how lucky I am, because I also have Parkinson’s,” Fox said. He knows that he's luckier than the average person with the degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. I don’t have a morbid thought in my head - I don’t fear death. When they ask me if I will be relieved of Parkinson’s in my lifetime, I say, ‘I’m 60 years old, and science is hard. “I’m really blunt with people about cures. “As I wrote in my latest book, I’m now out of the lemonade business,” the No Time Like the Future author told AARP in a new interview. (Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Michael J. Fox - at the 2021 'A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson's' gala on October 23 - talks about his 30-year battle with Parkinson's.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future... by Michael J. Fox