Actor Michael J. Fox once predicted that he would be cured of Parkinson disease's long before his 50th birthday. "I know I won't have this. I will not have it," he told Barbara Walters on national television. Now, 52, Fox is far from cured. Yet this week, more than a dozen years after leaving the TV seriesSpin City because he could no longer hide his declining health, he is returning on Thursday to star in The Michael J. Fox Show. (9 p.m. ET/PT on NBC). Instead of hiding his symptoms, this time he is celebrating them, starring as a fictional TV anchor and dad who has Parkinson's, making jokes about his shaking hands, poor motor control and other people's reactions to his disability. "We're not making fun of Parkinson's, we're examining a life that has Parkinson's and just how one guy deals with it," Fox says in a video about the new show. "It's part of the human experience. You can't cower from it, you can't hide from it. You have to accept it, incorporate it into your life. If you have a loving, full life, it'll just be part of it, just one of the colors of the palette." Read more http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/24/parkinsons-disease-fox/2862179/
