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Michael J. Fox continues to inspire people across the globe with Parkinson\u2019s disease, becoming a symbol of hope for everyone going through the same challenges of the health condition.<\/p>\n

Tracy Pollan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1961, Fox took an interest in acting early on in his life, and after filming the Canadian sitcom \u201cLeo and Me<\/a>,\u201d he headed off to Los Angeles in 1979 to make it big. Clearly, the folks in LA could see the potential in him, because before long he was cast as Alex P. Keaton in \u201cFamily Ties<\/a>,\u201d which ran from 1982\u20131989.<\/p>\n

During his previous interviews, Fox had revealed that his 40-year acting career would be coming to a bittersweet end. The Emmy-award-winning Hollywood legend also revealed plans for retirement in his memoir as his Parkinson’s disease continues to progress.<\/p>\n

“The nascent diminishment in my ability to download words and repeat them verbatim is just the latest ripple in the pond,” Fox wrote in his memoir, according to\u00a0TODAY<\/a>.\u00a0“There are reasons for my lapses in memorization \u2014 be they age, cognitive issues with the disease, distraction from the constant sensations of Parkinson’s, or lack of sensation because of the spine \u2014 but I read it as a message, an indicator.”<\/p>\n

The \u201cBack To The Future<\/a>\u201d actor has endured a lot throughout his life, and he has been open about his battle with Parkinson’s disease for the last 30 years. In an interview with CBS Mornings, Fox admits that living with such a debilitating disease has grown harder as the years go by.<\/p>\n

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Michael J. Fox (1988), (Kypros\/Hulton Archive via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n

In an interview with\u00a0Entertainment Tonight<\/a>,\u00a0Fox<\/a>\u00a0said he feels humbled to start a game-changing opportunity to help find a cure for Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor so long, the patients were the neglected part of the process and it happens in all kinds of disease studies and disease research, that they tend to hurry past the patient to try to find the answer,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an interview with\u00a0NPR<\/a>, he also recalled what he felt following his diagnosis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was shocking when I was diagnosed. I was diagnosed completely out of the blue, unexpectedly,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then again, he knew he had his wife\u2019s back the moment he told her about his condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I had made my way shellshocked back to the apartment and met Tracy and told her, admittedly somewhat tearfully, this had been pronounced. And she didn\u2019t blink. I could tell right away she was with me, and she was with me through whatever happened,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over the years, Fox has continued to dismiss the stigma that comes with Parkinson\u2019s disease, saying it\u2019s more than what people can see on the outside.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople often think of Parkinson\u2019s as a visual thing, but the visuals of it are nothing. On any given day, my hands could be barely shaking or they could be,\u201d he told\u00a0AARP<\/a> in an interview in 2021. \u201cIt\u2019s what you can\u2019t see \u2014 the lack of an inner gyroscope, of a sense of balance, of peripheral perception. I mean, I\u2019m sailing a ship on stormy seas on the brightest of days,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Michael J. Fox (2015), (Uri Schanker\/GC Images via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n

In an interview with\u00a0People Magazine<\/a>\u00a0in October 2022, he admitted it worsened over the previous two years. Fox went on to share how the situations he had\u00a0been in recently \u2013 including\u00a0injuries \u2013 affected his happy attitude.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was never really a cranky guy, but I got very cranky and short with people,\u201d he said. \u201cI try to nip it in the bud. I always think of these aides who work with me. And I often say to them, \u2018Whatever I say, just imagine I said \u201cplease\u201d at the beginning and \u201cthank you\u201d at the end. Just take a second and absorb that I might have said that if I was more myself, but I didn\u2019t, so I apologize.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox also elaborated on his grueling journey in the Apple TV+ documentary \u201cStill<\/a>,\u201d released in May 2023. According to reports, Fox revealed in the film that he is in \u201cintense pain\u201d as \u201ceach tremor is like a seismic jolt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fox also told\u00a0The Los Angeles Times<\/a>\u00a0that the pain was not caused by the movement\u00a0but the lack thereof.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s when you freeze, and in that freezing that not-movement becomes infused with all this energy and it becomes this burning, impending thing that never happens,\u201d he added. \u201cI don\u2019t want to get the violins out. I\u2019ve broken my hand, my elbow, my humerus, my other humerus, my shoulder, my face and some other s\u2014 too. And all that stuff is amplified by the electricity of the tremors. So, yes, it hurts a lot. But what you learn is that nobody gives a s\u2014. It\u2019s just life. It doesn\u2019t matter. You suck it up and you move on.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Tracy Pollan, Michael J. Fox and daughter (2023), (Slaven Vlasic\/Getty Images Entertainment via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n

At 62, Fox has since considered himself an optimist amid his condition. He told\u00a0CBS News<\/a>\u00a0in 2021 that he relied on optimism and gratitude. He even titled his memoir: “No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality<\/a>.” Fox is also the face of the\u00a0Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“And I really felt I just felt so much weight of that public persona being Mr. Optimist. And I still am Mr. Optimist. And I knew and in some small way, I knew in that moment, as dark as it was, that I would get back to that at some point,\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, things aren\u2019t always sunny for Fox. In\u00a0April 2023, Fox spoke to\u00a0CBS Sunday Morning<\/a>\u00a0anchor\u00a0Jane Pauley<\/a>\u00a0to admit that the battle for the incurable disease is getting more difficult.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not gonna lie. It\u2019s gettin\u2019 hard, it\u2019s gettin\u2019 harder. It\u2019s gettin\u2019 tougher,\u201d Fox admitted. \u201cEvery day it\u2019s tougher. But, but, that\u2019s, that\u2019s the way it is. I mean, you know, who do I see about that?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 2018, doctors found a noncancerous tumor in Fox\u2019s spine, and he explained to\u00a0People Magazine<\/a>\u00a0that he was on the cusp of paralysis if he didn’t get it operated on. He recalled this grim moment in the 2023 interview\u00a0as he heartbreakingly opened up about the\u00a0potential of not living into older age.<\/p>\n

\u201c(I) broke this arm, and I broke this arm, I broke this elbow. I broke my face. I broke my hand,\u201d Fox\u00a0furthered<\/a>. \u201cYou don\u2019t die from Parkinson\u2019s. You die with Parkinson\u2019s. I\u2019ve been thinking about the mortality of it. \u2026 I\u2019m not gonna be 80. I\u2019m not gonna be 80.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Michael J. Fox (2019), (Nicholas Hunt\/Getty Images Entertainment via Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)<\/span><\/p>\n

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