<p>Actor Michael J. Fox said during a weekend interview that his long battle with Parkinson&#8217;s disease was getting more difficult as the years go by.</p>
<p>Fox, 61, was diagnosed with the progressive and debilitating disease some three decades ago — and he told &#8220;CBS Sunday Morning&#8221; that <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/04/29/michael-j-fox-says-parkinsons-battle-getting-harder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he doesn&#8217;t foresee</a> living to see his own 80th birthday.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I’m not gonna be 80,&#8221; Fox told veteran journalist Jane Pauley, who noted that the &#8220;Back to the Future&#8221; actor had certainly not &#8220;squandered&#8221; his time, but that the nature of diseases like Parkinson&#8217;s was that eventually the illness called the shots and it would simply be his time.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yeah, it’s, it’s banging on the door,&#8221; Fox agreed. &#8220;I’m not gonna lie. It’s gettin’ hard, it’s gettin’ harder. It’s gettin’ tougher. Every day it’s tougher.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Family Ties&#8221; actor has faced a number of additional health challenges in recent years, which he chalks up to his body simply beginning to break down. Doctors successfully removed a benign tumor that had grown on his spine, but complications from the surgery made it more difficult for him to walk.</p>
<p>He had since suffered other fractures — in his hand, his face, his elbow, and his arm — and pointed out that one of the biggest dangers for people who have Parkinson&#8217;s is the fact that they are often unsteady on their feet and prone to falls.</p>
<p>Another possible risk is aspiration of food — and then pneumonia that could develop as a result.&#8221;You don’t die from Parkinson’s. You die with Parkinson’s,&#8221; Fox explained, noting that it was the little complications that were more likely to result in death than the disease itself. &#8220;So – so I’ve been – I’ve been thinking about the mortality of it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fox was diagnosed with the disease at the age of 29 and continued acting for a time with provisions in place to hide his symptoms from viewers.</p>
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<p>Since then, he has devoted much of his time to running The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson&#8217;s Research (MJFF), which he founded in the hopes that one day others might benefit from a potential cure.</p>
<p>&#8220;I know without fail that we are getting closer—day by day, year by year—to the breakthroughs that will make finding a cure inevitable,&#8221; Fox <a href="https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/michael-j-foxs-personal-heroic-quest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Neurology Now</a> a decade ago. &#8220;A lot of work lies ahead of us. But this is a responsibility we have, and we want people to know someone is trying to get this work done.&#8221;</p>

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