Full Home star Dave Coulier has revealed he’s been identified with stage 3 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and has been on a “actually quick curler coaster trip of a journey” over the previous month.
Chatting with Folks, the actor mentioned he was identified in October after an higher respiratory an infection brought about main swelling in his lymph nodes. After an space of the swelling grew to the scale of a golf ball, his physician suggested him to endure PET and CT scans in addition to a biopsy.
“Three days later, my medical doctors known as me again, and so they mentioned, ‘We want we had higher information for you, however you have got non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and it’s known as B cell and it’s very aggressive,’” Coulier recalled.
“I went from, I bought somewhat little bit of a head chilly to I’ve most cancers, and it was fairly overwhelming,” he mentioned. “This has been a very quick curler coaster trip of a journey.”
Coulier, who’s greatest identified for enjoying Joey Gladstone on the ABC sitcom Full Home, mentioned he and his spouse Melissa Deliver, together with shut pals within the medical area, began engaged on a plan of motion quickly after the prognosis.
Dave Coulier on Full Home; © Warner Bros. / Courtesy: Everett Assortment
“All of us type of put our heads collectively and mentioned, ‘Okay, the place are we going?’ They usually had a really particular plan for a way they had been going to deal with this,” he shared, noting how his bone marrow take a look at got here again unfavorable, rising his probabilities of curable “from one thing low to 90% vary.”
Coulier defined he shaved his head as a “preemptive strike” earlier than beginning chemotherapy two weeks after his prognosis. “That was actually a acutely aware resolution of, I’m going to satisfy this head-on, and I need folks to understand it’s my life,” he acknowledged. “I’m not going to try to disguise something. I’d somewhat speak about it and open the dialogue and encourage folks.”
Candace Cameron Burè, Dave Coulier in ‘Fuller Home’; Michael Yarish/©Netflix/courtesy Everett Assortment
The Surreal Life alum mentioned he’s making an attempt to keep up a constructive outlook, particularly for his spouse and son, Luc, whom he shares together with his first spouse, Jayne Modean. Coulier revealed Luc is anticipating his first little one.
“I’m going to be robust all through this, not only for me,” he added, earlier than opening up concerning the inspiration he’s taken from fellow members of the family who’ve additionally gone via most cancers.
“I misplaced my mother to breast most cancers. I misplaced my sister Sharon to breast most cancers. She was 36 years previous. I misplaced my niece, Shannon. She was 29 years previous,” he mentioned, including that his older sister Karen can be going via most cancers. “I noticed what these ladies in my household went via, and I assumed to myself, ‘If I might be simply 1/tenth of a p.c as robust as they had been, then I’m going to be simply superb.’”
Coulier reprised his position as Joey Gladstone for Netflix’s Fuller Home from 2016 to 2020. He’s additionally an achieved voice actor, showing within the likes of Muppet Infants, The Actual Ghostbusters, Dexter’s Laboratory, Robotic Rooster, and plenty of extra.
