“Everybody on his team, from the tip of the spear down, was just fantastic. With a remarkable blend of soul-searching insight and witty observations, Fox’s description of his spirit-draining trial and optimistic restoration contains exceptional kudos for Theodore and Johns Hopkins. “But in other ways, it was the easiest book to write because it was still so fresh…. “In a way, this was the hardest book I ever had to write because it was so personal and had so much pain,” Fox said in a recent telephone interview. Theodore said he would.įox had written two previous memoirs about his youth in Canada, acting career, and confronting Parkinson’s. The procedure to remove it was “not one that a lot of doctors were eager to tackle,” Fox recalls. But then came the tortured months of his annus horribilis - when that sunny outlook disappeared.Īs Fox recounts in his new memoir, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, his difficult journey to rediscover himself - and regain his optimism - began in April 2018, with an extremely risky but successful spinal operation performed by Johns Hopkins’ Nicholas Theodore, head of the Department of Neurosurgery’s spine division.įox came to Hopkins for the removal of a large but benign tumor, unrelated to his Parkinson’s, that was on his spinal cord and basically strangling it, threatening him with paralysis. Fox wasn’t sure who he was anymore.ĭiagnosed with Parkinson’s disease 30 years ago, at the age of 29, the well-known actor long considered himself an unconquerable optimist. Many people think they know who Michael J.
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