Dave Coulier is ready to accept whatever fate awaits him.
Earlier this week, the veteran actor — forever best known for his role on Full House — revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage 3 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
It’s an aggressive form of this disease.
“I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold to I have cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” Coulier told People Magazine. “This has been a really fast roller coaster ride of a journey.”
We really can’t imagine.
It sounds now, however, as if he star is coming to grips with his diagnosis and what it may mean for him down the line.
Even if it means the absolute worst.
“I told [wife] Melissa I don’t know why, but I [am] okay with whatever the news [is] going to be no matter how devastating,” Coulier told Today.com in an interview published November 13. “I can’t explain where that came from.”
Continued the long-time actor:
“I’ve had an incredible life. I’ve had the most amazing people in my life. This has been an extraordinary journey, and I’m okay if this is the end of the journey.”
What an impressive attitude, wouldn’t you say?
The 65-year-old went on to reflect on finding out about his diagnosis over the phone about five weeks prior to talking about it publicly.
“The first thing I said to them was, ‘Wait a minute — cancer?’” Coulier recalled. “I was feeling like I got punched in the stomach because it never happens to you. You always hear about it happening to someone else.”
From there, Coulier thought of his wife, to whom he’s been married for a decade.
“I was just contemplating, ‘How do I tell her?’” Coulier said. “When I told her, of course, she thought I was joking.”
In the time since his diagnosis, Coulier has undergone three surgeries… finished his first of what should be six rounds of chemotherapy… and started losing his hair.
He joked on Thursday with Today host Hoda Kotb (whose replacement has been named) that he looks “like a little baby bird now.”
Coulier did say that doctors expect him to be in “total remission” by the time he’s finished with chemotherapy in February 2025.
“I’m treating this as a journey,” he added. “And if I can help someone who’s watching today get an early screening, a breast exam, a colonoscopy, a prostate exam, go do it. Because, you know, for me, early detection meant everything.”
