In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Michael J. Fox, who played Marty McFly in Back to the Future, referred to Parkinson’s disease as a “gift that keeps on giving.”
The 61-year-old actor, activist, and former star of Back to the Future Part III was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease a year after the 1990 film’s premiere.
Parkinson’s sucks, Fox commented to Jane Pauley in an interview. You find yourself struggling more and more every day, but that is the way things are.
The disease gradually weakens various parts of the brain over many years. The three main symptoms are tremors, sluggish mobility, and rigid, unmoving muscles. The uncontrollable shaking of various bodily parts is referred to as tremors.
Fox said that after falling, he broke several bones in his face and other body parts and had a benign tumor on his spine. You die with (the illness), not from Parkinson’s, he added, “not from all these subtle ways that get you. I won’t make it to 80 years old. I will not be 80.
“I realize how challenging this is for me and how difficult this is for people, but I have a specific set of skills that allow me to deal with this stuff, and I realize that optimism is sustainable when practiced with gratitude,” he stated. Finding something to be grateful for enables you to move on and offers you something to look forward to.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research was founded by Fox in 2000, according to the charity’s website. To far, more than $1.75 billion (£1.39 billion) has been raised for research funding. A research that the foundation allegedly established a biomarker for Parkinson’s illness was also financed. It came out in April.
Observing that “this changes everything,” Fox said. I know where we are right now. We’ll be able to recognize it, determine whether you’ll ever have it, and know how to treat it in five years.
The actor, who has four children and is married to Tracy Pollan, announced his retirement in 2020. At the Governors Awards in November, he was presented with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, an honorary Oscar honoring outstanding charity accomplishments. Additionally, he will shortly release a documentary on Apple TV+. Still from a Michael J. Fox movie.
