Chemotherapy amid his constant struggle with stage 3 non-hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer in the lymphatic system.
In a new interview with Parade The 65-year-old actor, published on March 31, said he “felt pretty ill” after undergoing the final round of chemo in February.
“I didn’t know that I caught a virus. I was in bed for about ten days and just trying to find out, ‘Do I have a cold? Do I just have the effects of this cumulative effect of the chemo? What’s going on? “” He remembered.
According to Coulier, doctors found a ‘ground-glaze’ in a scan of his lungs, which means that there were a small particles of glass and ‘haze-gray areas’ at the bottom. Medical news today say this “areas” show Increased density in the lungs, which can be a sign of pneumonia or other breathing disorders.
Coulier said, in addition to the cold, it has a devastation on his weakened immune system, and if he did not have an investigation, his doctors told him they might not be able to help.
Fortunately, he received a positive update on his cancer fight from his most recent cap scan. Coulier said his doctors no longer found cancer cells.
Although it was good news for him, Coulier admitted that he would not be officially ‘out of the forest’ until he received the results of his recent cat scan to determine if the cancer is actually ‘in the rear -view mirror’. However, he mentions the chemotherapy treatment combined with the type of lymphoma he has can have a ‘very high’ italics rate.
Elsewhere during the interview, the Fuller home The actor explained how each round of chemotherapy led to aggravating symptoms.
‘Neuropathy, which I have not experienced before, has begun to increase. Nausea began to increase. Dizziness began to increase, ‘he explained. “They call it Chemo Brain, where you’re a little foggy – it started to increase. My days to get up and walk around and be active have begun to decline. Some days I just didn’t want to do anything. ‘
After the last round of chemotherapy in February, Coulier couldn’t get it out of bed.
“Although I wanted to move around and go out and, you know, work in the house, I just couldn’t,” he said. “There was so much cancer -related fatigue that gradually got worse and worse and worse, and I thought, ‘Wow, that’s how it goes. ”
Coulier announced his cancer diagnosis during an appearance of November 2024 on the Today Show, which revealed that he had a ‘very aggressive’ form of phase 3-not-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Non-Hodgkins lymphoma is a form of cancer that affects the white blood cells, causing them to grow abnormally and crops throughout the body, according to the Mayo Clinic. Phase 3 usually means that the cancer is large and can be spread to surrounding tissues or lymph nodes.
The sitcomer said he received his diagnosis after experiencing symptoms months before and found a large lump on his groin.
“It swollen immediately,” he said about the lump. “I thought,” Wow, I’m really sick, or my body really responds to something. ”
When he went to visit the doctor, Coulier said he had cancer.
“The first thing I told them was,” Wait a moment – cancer? “He remembers. ‘[I was] It feels like I’m beaten in the stomach because it never happens to you. You always hear about it happening to someone else. ”
Despite his diagnosis, Coulier is grateful for his growing family. The star on the screen became a grandfather last week when his son Luc welcomed his first baby with his wife Alex on March 27.
“We’re so excited. My son and his wife live in California, so we’re going to do several trips to see the little boy, ‘Coulier said of him and his wife Melissa’s plans to visit their newborn grandchild.
