Dave Coulier is able to settle for no matter destiny awaits him.
Earlier this week, the veteran actor — eternally 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.
“I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold to I have cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” Coulier instructed Folks Journal. “This has been a really fast roller coaster ride of a journey.”
We actually can’t think about.
It sounds now, nonetheless, as if he star is coming to grips along with his prognosis and what it could imply for him down the road.
Even when it means absolutely the worst.
“I told [wife] Melissa I don’t know why, but I [am] okay with whatever the news [is] going to be no matter how devastating,” Coulier instructed Immediately.com in an interview printed November 13. “I can’t explain where that came from.”
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 powerful perspective, wouldn’t you say?
The 65-year-old went on to mirror on discovering out about his prognosis 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 mentioned. “When I told her, of course, she thought I was joking.”
Within the time since his prognosis, Coulier has undergone three surgical procedures… completed his first of what must be six rounds of chemotherapy… and began dropping his hair.
He joked on Thursday with Immediately host Hoda Kotb (whose alternative has been named) that he appears to be like “like a little baby bird now.”
Coulier did say that medical doctors 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.”
