Saturday, 23 November 2024

‘Full House’ Star Discloses Heartbreaking Diagnosis

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Dave Coulier, best known for his role as Joey Gladstone in “Full House,” announced on the “TODAY Show” that he has Stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

“Dave Coulier announced on TODAY that he’s been diagnosed with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of blood cancer that starts in the lymphatic system. He shares the first symptom that led to his diagnosis, how he’s coping and more,” TODAY wrote.

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Worried, he visited his doctors who ran a variety of tests, including bloodwork, EKG, and PET and CT scans. While everything appeared to be normal, the doctors biopsied the lymph node just to be safe. Coulier soon learned why his lymph node became so enlarged.

“(My doctors) said, ‘Hey, we wish we had better news, but you have non-Hodgkin lymphoma, B-cell lymphoma,’” Coulier recalls. “It was a shock.”

Despite his cancer diagnosis, Coulier is still finding joy in life.

“My joke is that in four short weeks I’ve gone from a Virgo to a Cancer,” he says. “I’ve tried to retain a sense of reality but also a sense of humor about it.”

“I’m sending so much love to all of you and encouraging you to get a Breast Exam, Colonoscopy,
Prostate exam. Early detection can mean all the difference in the world for your health,” Coulier said.

“I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold to I have cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” Coulier said, according to People.

“This has been a really fast roller coaster ride of a journey,” he added.

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Upon learning of his diagnosis, Coulier says he and his wife Melissa Bring — along with some of his close friends in the medical field — immediately worked together to meet his diagnosis “head-on.”

“We all kind of put our heads together and said, ‘Okay, where are we going?’ And they had a very specific plan for how they were going to treat this,” he says, noting that a bright spot in his diagnosis was when his bone marrow test came back negative. “At that point, my chances of curable went from something low to 90% range. And so that was a great day.”

Two weeks into his diagnosis, Coulier says he immediately started chemotherapy. He shaved his head as a “preemptive strike,” and he opens up about his experience further on his podcast Full House Rewind with Marla Sokoloff.

“I started the podcast wearing a hat, and I said, I’ve always been a man of many hats, but this hat has special significance because a couple of weeks ago, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,” he says of the debut episode where he opens up about his diagnosis. “That was really a conscious decision of, I’m going to meet this head-on, and I want people to know it’s my life. I’m not going to try and hide anything. I would rather talk about it and open the discussion and inspire people.”

Throughout his cancer journey, Coulier says he is choosing to keep a positive outlook, especially for his wife and son Luc, who he reveals is expecting his first child. “I looked at how those words affected [Melissa] and I thought, you know what, I’m going to be strong throughout this, not just for me, but I’m going to be strong for her.”

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