Tags: Coping with illness & specific conditions Films, cinema HEALTH & FITNESS-Diseases-General Individual actors & performers Motion picture actors and actresses Motion picture actors and actresses-Canada Parkinson's disease-Patients Parkinson's disease-Patients-Canada PERFORMING ARTS-Film-General Biographies Fox, Michael J.
He feels as if he is a very lucky man indeed. Even so, he realizes that, in fact, he is a lucky man. Diagnosed in 1991, Michael eventually lost his balance, his grace, his spontaneity, and the ability to read the morning newspaper. Fox and his first ten years living with Parkinson's Disease. He talks about what Parkinson's has given him: the chance to appreciate a wonderful life and career, and the opportunity to help search for a cure and spread public awareness of the disease. The remarkable memoir of film star Michael J. Now, with his trademark ironic sensibility and sense of the absurd, he tells the story of his life - from his childhood in western Canada to his meteoric rise in film and television and, most importantly, the last ten years, during which - with the unswerving support of his wife, family, and friends - he has dealt with his illness. Fox stunned the world by announcing that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease - in fact, he had been secretly fighting it for seven years.
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