Thursday, July 28, 2011
Beam me up Scotty
Did you know that James Doohan, Scotty form the original Star Trek, had Pulmonary Fibrosis? Other well known PF patients....Marlon Brando, Evil Knieval and Robert Goulet. Sadly, all of them have passed away. But one famous face is still alive and kickin', Jerry Lewis. Here's the thing about Jerry, with all the work he's done for that telethon, he has yet to use his celebrity status to raise awareness for PF. Thanks Jerry. By the way, you're not even that funny.
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In a 2010 article in the LA Times, Chris Lee describes Jerry Lewis's health problems:
ReplyDelete__ But along the way, he also has suffered a litany of health problems, many related to his extreme lifestyle. Besides prostate cancer, diabetes and open-heart surgery, there's the nasty case of viral meningitis Lewis got performing in Australia, pulmonary fibrosis thanks to his longtime five-pack-a-day smoking habit (Lewis ballooned up to 280 pounds for several years consequent to a medicine he took for the condition), chronic back pain from chipping his spine during a pratfall at the Sands Casino, as well as accompanying bouts of addiction to prescription painkillers and even suicidal depression.__
The thing is, the guy is 85 years old, and still smokes, and obviously doesn't give a damn about his health or much else. I'm thinking he is a big jerk.