Michael J. Fox Reflects on Mortality Amid Parkinson’s Battle: ‘I’m Not Gonna Be 80’
usmagazine.comMichael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease is getting more challenging to deal with every day.“My life is set up so I can pack Parkinson’s along with me if I have to,” the Back to the Future star, 61, confessed to Jane Pauley in a Friday, April 28, preview for his CBS Sunday Mornings sit-down. “Yeah, it’s banging on the door.
Yeah, I mean, I’m not gonna lie. It’s gettin’ hard, it’s gettin’ harder. It’s gettin’ tougher. Every day it’s tougher. But that’s the way it is.”Fox, who was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease in 1991, further opened up to the 72-year-old journalist about how he’s learned to cope with his diagnosis.“You don’t die from Parkinson’s.
You die with Parkinson’s,” the Family Ties alum said. “So, I’ve been thinking about the mortality of it. … I’m not gonna be 80.
I’m not gonna be 80.”Seven years after Fox found out he had Parkinson’s, he publicly disclosed his health challenges. The Teen Wolf star, who has been married to Tracy Pollan since 1988, has since become a fervent advocate for Parkinson’s research.
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