{"id":3295,"date":"2025-06-11T09:48:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T09:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T09:48:54","slug":"michael-j-fox-had-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=3295","title":{"rendered":"Michael J. Fox Had Parkinson\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How Long Has Michael J. Fox Had Parkinson\u2019s Disease?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease in 1991 at age 29 and went public in 1998. Since then, he\u2019s become a leading advocate, using his platform to raise awareness and fund research through the Michael J. Fox Foundation, launched in 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Is Parkinson\u2019s Disease?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s a progressive nervous system disorder that affects movement, causing tremors, stiffness, slowed movement, balance issues, and changes in speech and posture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fox\u2019s Journey<\/strong><br \/>\nThough initially hesitant to speak out, Michael found support after going public. He\u2019s used humor to cope, even in tough times, and continues to face physical challenges like tremors and balance issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Staying Positive<\/strong><br \/>\nMichael credits his resilience to humor, family support, and self-love. \u201cTake each day as it comes,\u201d he shared in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>How Long Has Michael J. Fox Had Parkinson\u2019s Disease? Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease in 1991 at age 29 and went public <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=3295\" title=\"Michael J. Fox Had Parkinson\u2019s Disease\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}