Michael J. Fox, alcohol, Parkinson's and falls: "I only know that I have a future, the future is the last thing we run out of"

There is an episode of the comic series

in which

has a cameo.

It aired in 2011 and Fox played himself, but turned into the awkward upstairs neighbor of David's new apartment in New York.

One night the two meet at a cocktail bar and Michael gives Larry a nod that offends the comedian.

"Do you think he was pissed off or was it Parkinson's?" He asks his partner.

The next day Larry David goes up to Fox's apartment to clear up the misunderstanding and the actor offers him a

to make amends.

His arm shakes so much when he takes the bottle out of the fridge that when he opens it, the soda explodes in Larry David's face.

"Did you shake it on purpose?" he reproaches.

-"It's Parkinson's", excuses himself Michael J. Fox.

(canned laughter)

"What Larry proposed pushed situations to the limit. I suppose it could have been a disaster if people, especially Parkinson's patients and their families, had mistaken my disposition for a self-parodic attitude, but I found it liberating.

, sometimes over-medicating myself to achieve and maintain some kinetic stability, finally anything could happen".

Michael J. Fox. Page 39. The book is called

.

Says he, who has returned a few times from there.

And the subtitle -

Faces Death - would sound like a self-help manual if he didn't hide a few jokes that blow up in your face like soda.

After writing his memoirs in 2002, a first book on the "adventures of an incurable optimist" in 2009 and another that traveled through his first years of crisis in 2010, Fox is now publishing, for the first time in Spain (Libros Cúpula), the story less sweetened of his illness, a story in which there are a few bottles of alcohol, trips in ambulances, doctors, tumors, operations, a degenerative disease and a guy who was able to fly on a skateboard and now goes face down on the ground to the minimum.

"I'm 60 years old and I'm happy to walk like I'm 90," he jokes.

I am 60 years old and I am satisfied with walking as if I were 90

Michael J Fox

The book, in fact, starts at 6:30 a.m. on an August morning in 2018 with Michael J. Fox sprawled on his kitchen tile.

"I had fallen like those pathetic old women, sprawled at the bottom of the stairs by the laundry basket, and couldn't get up," he writes.

Only a few months before he had been operated on for a benign tumor on his back that threatened to leave him paralyzed for life and that scared the doctors almost more than him.

, ironizes him, again on the floor.

«After my operation, everyone, doctors, family and friends had repeated the same message to me daily: you only have to worry about one thing, not to fall.

And yet here I am."

Michael, crushed.

“If life gives you lemons, make lemonade, they say.

Well, I'm getting the urge to close my lemonade kiosk."

Let's leave the actor lying there and get in the DeLorean for a moment.

Michael J. Fox became known for his role as young Republican Alex Keaton on the television series

.

Between 1985 and 1990 the

trilogy made him world famous.

He won five Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes and even a Grammy.

.

Two years later he parked the Mustang convertible forever and gave up acting for the first time.

"Would they still think I was funny if they knew I had Parkinson's?"

In 1991, at just 29 years old, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's, but he did not reveal his illness until 1998.

What came next was flirtation with depression, too many beers, lots of therapy, tongue twisters, fractures of all colors, rehab, and a new relationship with his physique.

Fox says that he came to feel like a

ball , "a walking gun", desperate to try not to collide with any obstacle.

After 30 years of living together, he and Parkinson's reached a truce.

"We have a long history together and I have long realized that control is out of the question."

"I've managed to live my life without Parkinson's defining me, so a simple wheelchair doesn't bother me," he admits now.

"I'm just a retired actor who wants to go to a concert with his wife and his daughters. Go ahead and push me."

There is a moment in his story, in which Michael J. Fox even speaks of his illness as

.

A gift that has not stopped screwing up his life, eye, but a gift.

He refers to the opportunity that his mobility problems have given him to pause every day, almost in slow motion.

"With every move I make I have a little conversation with myself. It's me, taking my time."

And there appears an incorrigibly optimistic and extraordinarily brave guy, like that Marty McFly who did not admit that nobody called him a chicken.

He traded Hollywood for putting the dishes in the dishwasher without messing it up and the slippers with

for a cane.

"The truth is that I don't want to live like this, but it is also true that I have come to accept that I have no other way to do it."

The truth is that I do not want to live like this, but I have come to accept that I have no other way to do it

Fox dedicated himself to writing, created a foundation that has raised

converted into euros in search of a cure for Parkinson's and occasionally returned to the screens.

In 2020 he announced his final withdrawal due to his memory problems.

The last movie he appeared in was a Spike Lee production, in 2019. His daughter helped him go over the scripts and one day Michael asked her if she would like to act sometime.

"I couldn't take the pressure," Sky replied.

- "Of course, it also ends up producing Parkinson's," he settled.

(more laughter)

Michael J Fox is 60 years old today and does not seem too much for death.

he writes, quoting Roosevelt.

"Whatever my physical circumstances are right now, I face them and keep going. If I fall, I get up. As for the future, I haven't been there yet. I only know that I have one. The last thing we run out of is precisely the future".

'There is no better time than the future: Or how an optimist faces death'

, by Michael J. Fox, is already on sale (Libros Cúpula).

You can buy it here.

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