{"id":700,"date":"2022-10-29T16:13:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funnyvideo.us\/?p=700"},"modified":"2022-10-29T16:13:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:13:52","slug":"michael-j-fox-broke-cheek-hand-when-life-got-worse-his-4-kids-wife-were-there-to-support-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Michael J Fox Broke Cheek & Hand: When Life \u2018Got Worse\u2019 His 4 Kids & Wife Were There to Support Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Besides being famous for his iconic role in the \u201cBack to The Future\u201d franchise, Michael J. Fox was also well-known for being an optimist. After being diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease, he also became an activist.<\/h4>\n

He\u2019s spent most of his life building awareness about the illness. In late October 2022, Michael was interviewed by People magazine, where he also posed for a photoshoot and entertained the crew.<\/p>\n

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Despite his struggles of living with the diagnosis, which could probably dampen anyone\u2019s mood, the star was able to play air guitar. as he posed! The publication noted how the actor was in a \u201cplayful mood\u201d that day in New York, with him stating:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m rocking and rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Things haven\u2019t always been smooth for Michael, who chronicled \u201cthe worst year of his life\u201d in his 2020 memoir. The actor\u2019s health issues began in 2018 when he had a dangerous spinal-cord surgery and needed a procedure to remove a tumor.<\/p>\n

He then suffered a broken left arm before all went well as he recovered and went on a safari to Africa with his actress wife, Tracy Pollan, and their four children. In 2021, the star faced more health problems, with him confessing how worse it got, saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cI broke my cheek, then my hand, then my shoulder, had a replacement shoulder put in and broke my [right] arm, then I broke my elbow. I\u2019m 61 years old, and I\u2019m feeling it a little bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The actor\u2019s diagnosis affected his movements, but those close to him explained that his injuries didn\u2019t mean the disease progressed more quickly. After breaking his hand, Michael got an infection after surgery.<\/p>\n

Being unable to use his hand temporarily led to his issues with balancing and falls. The star admitted that the painful incidents dampened his positive outlook, and he got \u201ccranky and short\u201d with people despite not being that person.<\/p>\n

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However, when he noticed his mood changes, he tried stopping them. He thought of his aides and how he\u2019d often told them that whatever he said, they should imagine him saying \u201cplease\u201d at the start and \u201cthank you\u201d at the end.<\/p>\n

Michael asked for the absorption of the idea of him possibly saying those words if he\u2019d been his usual self despite him not having done that. However, he did note when he didn\u2019t tell them and apologized.<\/p>\n

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Recovering lifted him emotionally as he explained how he\u2019d just started healing from his last injury, with his arm feeling great. He said life was interesting and noticed how it dealt him things, but his mission was simple:<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t fall down. So whatever works to not fall down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckily for his wife, even when facing his most challenging time, Pollan described him as one of the kindest people he\u2019d ever met. The actress, who\u2019d been married to Michael for 34 years in October 2022, credited his upbringing for how he \u201calmost always\u201d looked at situations and those involved.<\/p>\n

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He would think about those people before himself. The continued love and support he received from his adoring family probably kept him going all these years.<\/p>\n

The Support Michael Received from His Family
\nMichael\u2019s son, Sam, 33 in 2022, helped oversee his father\u2019s social media account. In a past \u201cGraham Norton Show\u201d appearance, the actor recalled how someone on Twitter had said something mean about his diagnosis.<\/p>\n

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The star usually let such things slide cause they didn\u2019t happen often, but in that instance, he wanted to respond to the troll. He asked Sam\u2019s advice, who told him to \u201cDo SMH,\u201d and when Michael wanted to understand what that was, his son urged him to trust him.<\/p>\n

After sending the reply, the troll told the actor that it was the \u201cfunniest thing\u201d he\u2019d ever read and dubbed Michael the \u201cking of the internet\u201d before apologizing. Confused, the actor asked Sam what he\u2019d made him say, and the eldest Fox child hilariously told his father the acronym stood for \u201cShaking my head!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sam Michael, born on May 30, 1989, was his father\u2019s mini-me. He didn\u2019t follow his parent\u2019s career choices like his twin sisters, Schuyler Frances and Aquinnah Kathleen, born on February 15, 1995, and 27 in 2022.<\/p>\n

The Fox twins stayed out of the limelight but once in a while; they attended red-carpet events with their parents. The family\u2019s lastborn daughter, Esm\u00e9 Annabelle, was welcomed on November 3, 2001, and was 21 in 2022.<\/p>\n

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At age 18, she went off to college, leaving her parents as empty nesters. Michael has been blessed to have a fantastic family and a wife who stuck by his side even after she learned about his diagnosis.<\/p>\n

The Woman Who Kept Choosing Michael despite His Diagnosis
\nPollan and Michael met on the \u201cFamily Ties\u201d set when she played his onscreen girlfriend, Ellen. The duo was apart for a few years until they were reunited by work again on the set of \u201cBright Lights, Big City.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael [J. Fox] said the support he received from his wife [Tracy Pollan] made him feel like a husband, father, and friend first before he was someone with Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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The pair began dating, and on July 16, 1988, the two tied the knot at Arlington, Vermont\u2019s West Mountain Inn. Pollan was born on June 22, 1960, in Long Island, New York, into a Russian-Jewish family.<\/p>\n

She graduated from Manhattan, New York\u2019s Dalton School before studying acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio and the Lee Strasberg Institute. Michael\u2019s wife has appeared in theater, television films, and shows like \u201cLaw & Order,\u201d \u201cSpin City,\u201d and \u201cMedium.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In 2020, it had been 30 years since Sam\u2019s father confessed to his wife that he had Parkinson\u2019s at age 29. The \u201cNo Time Like the Future\u201d author recalled to Sunday Today that he hadn\u2019t known what to expect when he told her, emotionally adding:<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things I\u2019ll always love Tracy for is that at that moment, she didn\u2019t blink.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Speaking to People magazine in 2020, Michael said the support he received from his wife made him feel like a husband, father, and friend first before he was someone with Parkinson\u2019s. The actor shared that he loved his life.<\/p>\n

He also noted how he loved being with his family and Pollan. Michael, who told People in 2022, \u201cI\u2019m just getting to where I\u2019m walking steadily again,\u201d revealed that he loved not doing many useless things like he used to because he didn\u2019t have the energy or the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Besides being famous for his iconic role in the \u201cBack to The Future\u201d franchise, Michael J. Fox was also well-known for being an optimist. After being diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease, he also became an activist. He\u2019s spent most of his life building awareness about the illness. In late October 2022, Michael was interviewed by People […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[199,290],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-michael-j-fox-broke-cheek-hand","tag-when-life-got-worse-his-4-kids-wife-were-there-to-support-him"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}