After nearly dying twice, Jeff Bridges is cherishing the time he gets to spend with his wife, grandkids, and new puppy these days.
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After being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and then nearly dying from COVID-19, the actor described the last year and a half of his life as “a weird dream” in a new interview with People.
It all began when he felt something in his stomach while exercising, causing him to seek medical attention, when he was informed that he “had a 12-by-9-inch tumor in my abdomen.”
In my physique, I feel like a child. “It didn’t hurt in the least,” he claimed.
Bridges was diagnosed with cancer shortly after and began receiving chemotherapy infusions followed by oral chemo.
While his cancer prognosis was improving, he suffered another health setback in January 2021 when he contracted COVID-19 after chemo had severely impaired his immune system.
Thankfully, however, Bridges was able to receive a convalescent plasma treatment, a therapy that uses blood from those who have recovered from COVID-19, and began to see improvements in his health.
