Jeff Bridges is thankful his wife Susan Bridges encouraged him to go to the doctor when he told her he felt like he had a bone in his stomach while doing exercise.
The 73-year-old Big Lebowski actor was diagnosed in October 2020 with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and was found to have a 9-by-12-inch tumor in his body.
Remarkably, he was able to do fight scenes for The Old Man without any pain before undergoing chemotherapy. “It was slow at first, as they worked to find the right chemo cocktail for me,” he said.Keep reading to find out more… After chemotherapy, his tumor has shrunk “to the size of a marble.” Jeff says that his battle with COVID was actually more difficult than cancer. “I got this letter from the chemo place informing me I had contracted COVID,” Jeff told AARP. “I had no immune system to fight it.
Chemo had wiped that out, which made it really, really tough.” “For me cancer was nothing compared to the COVID,” Jeff said as he was unable to walk and needed oxygen to breathe.
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