“I went from saying ‘I have a little cold’ to ‘I have cancer’.”and that was more than I could bear,” said Dave Coulier, the actor who played Uncle Joey, the protagonist of the successful series from the 80s and 90s. Forced Parents In an interview he gave to the magazine People.
The interpreter, 65 years old and based in Detroit, explained that he was diagnosed a stage III non-Hodgkin lymphoma last Octoberbut it all started in a very different way, when he had a small respiratory infection that became more complicated as his lymph nodes swelled.
For this reason, the doctors did not hesitate to perform a series of tests – a biopsy, a tomography… – and the result caught everyone by surprise. “Three days later, the doctors called me and said, ‘I wish this were better news for you, but what you have is non-Hodgkin lymphoma, It’s called B-cell, and it’s very aggressive,” the actor explained.
Coulier has defined these last few weeks as “a very fast ride on a roller coaster,” in which he was grateful that his wife of a decade, Melissa Bring, has helped him so much, especially since he is about to be a grandfather —His son Luc, the result of his marriage to model Jayne Modean in the early nineties, will become a first-time father in March.
“We agreed and asked ourselves: ‘Okay, what do we do now?’ And (the doctors) already had a very specific plan on how they were going to treat him,” he explained, starting with a test they did to him. check if the bone marrow was affected and that it was negative: “At that moment, my chances of being cured went from very low to almost 90%. So it was a great day.”
Dave Coulier has detailed that He started chemotherapy two weeks after the diagnosis and decided to shave himself. Likewise, he has said that he has his “good days and bad days.” “Some days I have nausea and dizziness, and then there are others in which the steroids have more effect on me and I feel like I have a lot of energy,” he said on his own podcast this Wednesday.
“I’m not going to try to hide anything from anyone. I prefer to talk about it, open the debate and inspire people,” he said, adding that he has a family history of the disease – his mother, his sister and his niece died of cancer. mother-. Finally, he confessed: “I have had an incredible life on a path full of incredible people around me and that’s why I’m fine. “That changes your way of thinking, for sure.”