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What Michael J. Fox Wants successful the Next 30 Years
Michael J. Fox conscionable made a heartbreaking prediction astir himself amid his battle with Parkinson's disease.
"You don't dice from Parkinson's. You dice with Parkinson's," the Back to the Future actor said connected CBS This Morning April 30. "I'm not gonna beryllium 80. I'm not gonna beryllium 80."
Michael, 61, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which has affected his question and caused tremors and slurred speech, successful the '90s. He has since mostly enactment acting speech to absorption connected his enactment with the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which aims to find a cure for Parkinson's. Meanwhile, his illness has progressed. As helium said connected CBS This Morning, "Every day, it's tougher."
Over the years, the histrion has suffered many other health scares, immoderate related to Parkinson's and immoderate not.
"I had spinal surgery. I had a tumor connected my spine and it was benign," Michael said connected CBS Sunday Morning, appearing to notation a 2018 procedure. "Then I started to interruption stuff. I broke this limb and I broke this arm, I broke this elbow, I broke my face, I broke my hand."
The histrion continued, "Falling and aspirating nutrient and pneumonia. All these subtle ways that gets ya."
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Michael, a five-time Emmy victor and recipient of a 2022 honorary Oscar, roseate to fame successful the '80s, playing Alex P. Keaton connected the sitcom Family Ties and Marty McFly successful the Back to the Future films. He said on CBS Sunday Morning that helium precocious watched the original movie for the archetypal clip since 1987. The histrion recalled wife Tracy Pollan's reaction.
"She said, 'You're watching Back to the Future?" helium recalled. "'Yeah, you know, I'm truly bully successful it.'"
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Tracy, who has been joined to Michael since 1988, shares 4 kids with the actor—Sam Fox, 33, twins Aquinnah Fox and Schuyler Fox, 28, and Esmé Fox, 21. The Spin City prima appears with his family in a caller Apple TV+ documentary astir his life, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, which is acceptable to statesman streaming May 12.
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Regarding his outlook connected his life, Michael told CBS Morning that he realized that "with gratitude, optimism is sustainable." He added, "If you find thing to beryllium grateful for, past you find thing to look guardant to and you transportation on."
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