![]() "People say, 'I had to learn to walk again,' and I think sometimes they mean they had to get a balanced stride or get an evenness with their pace. Then the actor spent much of 2018 learning how to walk again. Surgeons said it was too risky to operate, but Fox found a top doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore who was willing to perform the procedure. The good news was the tumour was benign the bad news was it would eventually paralyze him. Soon after, the actor noticed he wasn't only having gait issues because of his Parkinson's: he was having difficulty walking because his legs were going numb. Early in the year, Fox's father-in-law passed away. ![]() "I realized that Keith Richards looked better than I felt," quips Fox in an interview with Q host Tom Power. On New Year's Eve, Fox was at a resort in Turks and Caicos and bumped into Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. ![]() For nearly three decades, Fox has battled Parkinson's, a brain disorder that strikes the nervous system and leads to difficulty with the most basic actions such as walking and speaking. It was 2018, and the famously upbeat Canadian-born actor was having a terrible year. ![]() Fox was lying on his kitchen floor with a crushed arm, unable to reach the phone to call for help, when his optimism finally ran out. ![]() Click the play button above to listen to Michael J. ![]()
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