January 24, 2016
The 53-year-old was diagnosed when he was 29-years-old and has continued working since
Michael J. Fox revealed he came to terms with his Parkinson’s diagnosis once he stopped “whining and whinging” about it.
The 53-year-old, who was diagnosed when he was just 29-years-old, appeared on the Letterman show to talk about living with the diseased.
When host David ask if he knew it was Parkinson’s Awareness Month, he quickly fired back: “I’m full aware of it. It’s locked in with me.”
Discussing when he was first diagnosed the brave actor said: “It was pretty scary. I was 29 years old and so it was the last thing I expected to hear.
“I thought I’d hurt my shoulder doing some stunt because I had a twitch in my pinkie. “And the doctor said ‘You have Parkinson’s disease.’ He said, ‘The good news is that you have 10 years of work left.”
The Back To The Future actor went on to reveal how he dealt with the news: “Certainly there are things on the face [of it] that are much worse, that are terminal and really hopeless situations and it wasn’t that.
“I just knew I was going to have to make adjustments and I didn’t know what I was gonna have to adjust to.
“But, to be corny about it, once you accept it and you learn about it and you realise you’re part of a community and you realise you’re in a position to do something and to make a difference and to help, well then it’s just like, quit your b***hin’ and get on with it.”
The star’s foundation – the Michael J. Fox Foundation – is working to discover more clear-cut biomarkers to diagnose people with the disease before they start to display symptoms.
http://www.healthist.co/2016/01/24/parkinsons-sufferer-michael-j-fox-makes-brave-appearance-on-letterman-during-the-diseases-awareness-month-and-advanced-mold-remediation/
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