Still Fighting, Still Hurting

His voice doesn’t shake from fear. It shakes from three decades of war inside his own body. Michael J. Fox finally says what everyone prayed he never would—that Parkinson’s is winning ground, that the falls, the fractures, the surgeries are stacking up faster than he can heal. He doesn’t expect to see 80. Yet when the camera closes in, he doesn’t surrender. He doesn’t soften the truth. He stares it down, smiles through the tremors, and says he’s not going anywh… Continues…

He has outlived every prognosis, every whispered estimate spoken when doctors thought he couldn’t hear. Thirty years after his diagnosis, Michael J. Fox appears smaller, his movements less controlled, his body marked by surgeries and continue reading …