The Full House alum opened up astir however his recent signifier 3 Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis has impacted his outlook connected life, sharing a revelation that he'd discussed with wife Melissa Coulier.
"I told Melissa I don’t cognize why, but I [am] OK with immoderate the quality [is] going to beryllium nary substance however devastating," Coulier told Today.com successful an interrogation published Nov. 13. "I can’t explicate wherever that came from."
"I’ve had an unthinkable life," helium continued. "I’ve had the astir astonishing radical successful my life. This has been an bonzer journey, and I’m OK if this is the extremity of the journey."
The 65-year-old recounted archetypal uncovering retired astir his diagnosis implicit the telephone astir 5 weeks anterior to sharing it publicly.
"The archetypal happening I said to them was, 'Wait a infinitesimal — cancer?'" helium recalled. "I was feeling similar I got punched successful the tummy due to the fact that it ne'er happens to you. You ever perceive astir it happening to idiosyncratic else."
The Fuller House star's caput past jumped to his woman of 10 years.
"I was conscionable contemplating, 'How bash I archer her?'" helium explained. "When I told her, of course, she thought I was joking."
Coulier added that his woman "has been truthful unthinkable from erstwhile [they] archetypal got the news" and has "organized [his] full life, from nutrition to the doctor’s appointments to the pills," adjacent going truthful acold arsenic having his supplies "color-coded."
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In the clip since his diagnosis, the histrion has undergone 3 surgeries, finished his archetypal of an expected six rounds of chemotherapy and started losing his hair, joking with Today host Hoda Kotb during his Nov. 13 quality that helium looks "like a small babe vertebrate now."
While Coulier's crab is "very aggressive"—he had a "golf ball"-sized maturation successful his groin that was increasing "very quickly"—the histrion noted that his doctors expect him to beryllium successful "total remission" by the clip he's finished with chemo successful February 2025.
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"It’s been a spot of a roller coaster," helium reflected. "There [are] days wherever I consciousness unbelievable. Then there’s different days wherever … I’m conscionable going to laic down and fto this beryllium what it’s going to be."
Ultimately, Coulier hopes that by sharing his story, helium tin promote others to get checked to hopefully debar an adjacent much superior diagnosis.
"I'm treating this arsenic a journey," helium said. "And if I tin assistance idiosyncratic who's watching contiguous get an aboriginal screening, a bosom exam, a colonoscopy, a prostate exam, spell bash it. Because, you know, for me, aboriginal detection meant everything."
Read connected for much celebs who person opened up astir their crab journeys.
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