That plan changed when the actor learned he had a tumor on his spine, which, left untreated, could cause him to lose feeling in his legs. And I think gratitude is what makes optimism sustainable."įox didn't know what health challenges awaited him when he first started writing "No Time Like the Future," which he originally intended to be about discovering his love of golf in middle age, decades after being diagnosed with Parkinson's at age 29. And so the rest of the book is this journey through finding my way back with gratitude. "That was a real breakthrough moment for me, because I realized that I've been selling that optimism to people for so long," he continues. "I believe it's true to my core, but it struck me that at that point I questioned it, and I questioned it really severely. It's this fall that kicks off Fox's book, in which the actor goes on to detail his harrowing recovery from spinal surgery, insights from his battle with Parkinson's disease and his return to positivity after, quite literally, falling into despair. All this time you've been telling everybody to be optimistic, chin-up, and you're miserable now. "I was lying on the floor in my kitchen with a shattered arm waiting for the ambulance to show up," Fox tells USA TODAY. "I kind of went, 'What an idiot. This is the beloved canine who, along with Fox's wife and four adult kids, supported the actor as he recovered from a risky spinal surgery in 2018 that forced him to relearn how to walk, as well as a devastating fall shortly after that left the "Back to the Future" star stranded on his kitchen floor with a broken arm. "You can argue that he rescued me, but he'd be too modest to make that claim." "I didn't rescue Gus," Fox, 59, writes in "No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality," his latest memoir, out Nov. It's not long before the black-and-white mutt lumbers into the office with a smiling Pollan beside him. "That's the wonder dog," Fox quips before his wife asks off-camera whether Gus can come in and say hi. And the third is a portrait of the actor's rescue dog, Gus. Another is a painting by his 25-year-old daughter, Schuyler, of a stone arch in Utah. One is a photo of the star embracing his wife of 32 years, Tracy Pollan. Fox as he sits in his New York City office during a Zoom call. Three images are visible on the wall behind Michael J. Fox talks learning to walk again after spinal surgery
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