Dave Coulier is able to settle for no matter destiny awaits him.
Earlier this week, the veteran actor — ceaselessly finest identified for his position on Full Home — revealed that he had been recognized with stage 3 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
It’s an aggressive type of this illness.
Bob Saget, Dave Coulier and John Stamos, winners of the Favourite Premium Comedy Sequence Award, “Fuller House”, pose within the press room throughout the Individuals’s Selection Awards 2017 at Microsoft Theater on January 18, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Photographs)
“I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold to I have cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” Coulier advised Individuals Journal. “This has been a really fast roller coaster ride of a journey.”
We actually can’t think about.
It sounds now, nevertheless, as if he star is coming to grips along with his analysis and what it might imply for him down the road.
Even when it means absolutely the worst.
Dave Coulier attends the premiere of Netflix’s ‘Fuller House’ at Pacific Theatres at The Grove on February 16, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Emma McIntyre/Getty Photographs)
Continued the long-time actor:
“I’ve had an incredible life. I’ve had the most amazing people in my life. This has been an extraordinary journey, and I’m okay if this is the end of the journey.”
What a formidable perspective, wouldn’t you say?
Dave Coulier poses with Bullseye the Goal canine to Hi there Kitty Con 2014 Opening Night time Occasion Co-hosted by Goal on October 29, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Photographs for Sanrio)
The 65-year-old went on to replicate on discovering out about his analysis over the telephone about 5 weeks previous to speaking about it publicly.
“The first thing I said to them was, ‘Wait a minute — cancer?’” Coulier recalled. “I was feeling like I got punched in the stomach because it never happens to you. You always hear about it happening to someone else.”
From there, Coulier considered his spouse, to whom he’s been married for a decade.
“I was just contemplating, ‘How do I tell her?’” Coulier stated. “When I told her, of course, she thought I was joking.”
Dave Coulier poses on the El Capitan Theatre on August 5, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Michael Buckner/Getty Photographs for Goal)
Within the time since his analysis, Coulier has undergone three surgical procedures… completed his first of what must be six rounds of chemotherapy… and began shedding his hair.
He joked on Thursday with Immediately host Hoda Kotb (whose substitute has been named) that he seems to be “like a little baby bird now.”
Coulier did say that docs count on him to be in “total remission” by the point he’s completed with chemotherapy in February 2025.
“I’m treating this as a journey,” he added. “And if I can help someone who’s watching today get an early screening, a breast exam, a colonoscopy, a prostate exam, go do it. Because, you know, for me, early detection meant everything.”
