Dave Coulier is ready to accept whatever fate awaits him.
Earlier this week, the veteran actor – always best known for his role on Full House – revealed that he has been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
This is an aggressive form of this disease.
“I walked out of there, I had a little head cold that I had cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” Coulier told People Magazine. “It’s been a really fast roller coaster ride of a journey.”
We really can’t imagine.
However, now it seems as if he is coming to grips with his diagnosis and what it may mean for him in the future.
Even if it means the worst.
“I told [wife] Melissa I don’t know why, but I [am] whatever news is ok [is] As devastating as it may be,” Coulier told TODAY.com in an interview published Nov. 13. “I can’t tell where it came from.”
Continued the longtime actor:
“My life has been incredible. I have had the most amazing people in my life. It has been an extraordinary journey, and I don’t mind if this is the end of the journey.”
What an impressive attitude wouldn’t you say?
The 65-year-old considered finding out about his diagnosis over the phone about five weeks before talking about it publicly.
“The first thing I said to him was, ‘Wait a minute – cancer?'” Cullier recalled. “I felt like I was punched in the stomach because that never happens to you. You always hear about it happening to someone else.”
From there, Coulier thought of his wife, to whom he has been married for a decade.
“I was just thinking, ‘How do I tell him?'” Coulier said. “Of course, when I told him, he thought I was kidding.”
Since her diagnosis, Cullier has had three surgeries… completed her first of six rounds of chemotherapy… and has started losing her hair.
He joked Thursday with Today host Hoda Kotb (whose replacement has been named) that he “looks like a baby bird now.”
courier Did Says doctors expect him to make a “full recovery” by the time chemotherapy is completed in February 2025.
“I’m treating it as a journey,” he said. “And if I can help someone I see today get an early screening, a breast exam, a colonoscopy, a prostate exam, then do it. Because, you know, to me, early detection meant everything.