Biography michael j fox parkinsons
Early signs of parkinsons disease!
Biography michael j fox parkinsons
Why Michael J. Fox Waited 7 Years to Reveal His Parkinson’s Diagnosis
Like many kids, Michael J. Fox had his eyes on a career as a rock star. “I grew up admiring rockstars like Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page,” he told The New York Times Magazine.
“That’s what I thought being famous was. But I wasn’t a rock star.”
Many might argue that the Canadian actor is a rock star in a different way. His Michael J. Fox Foundation has raised more than $1 billion to fund research to find a cure for Parkinson’s, a degenerative disease that has affected Muhammad Ali, Neil Diamond, Jesse Jackson, Ozzy Osbourne, Linda Ronstadt, and Fox himself, who was diagnosed in 1991.
Since going public with his diagnosis in 1998, the Back to the Future and Family Ties star hasn’t shied away from speaking out about the disease’s impact on his life and championing the search for a cure.
“I refer to Parkinson’s and the effect it’s had on my life as a gift—and people are completely dubious of that and kind