Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges had good news about his cancer on Monday, but added that the terrifying case of COVID-19 he caught during treatment made his lymphoma look like a “piece of cake “.
The 1998 “boy” from “The Big Lebowski” noted on his website that his cancer is “in remission,” with a dramatic reduction in a tumor.
In a previous note written in March that he first posted Monday, Bridges said his “dancing with COVID makes my cancer look like a piece of cake.”
Bridges, 71, said when he was sick with COVID he had “moments of tremendous pain” in which he would scream “all night” and believed he was “approaching the pearly doors.”
But that’s “in the rearview mirror” now, he wrote. “This brush of mortality has given me a real gift: life is short and beautiful. Love is all around us and is available at all times, ”he added.
Until recently, Bridges needed extra oxygen to walk. “The sound reminds me of Darth Vader,” he joked.
“COVID punched me pretty well, but I’m double vaccinated and I feel so much better,” Bridges wrote. He speculated that the vaccine was related to its “rapid improvement.”
The actor said he was informed – “hahaha” – in January by the facility where he was receiving chemotherapy infusions for his cancer that could have been exposed to the coronavirus there. Vaccinations were generally not available at the time.
“Shortly afterwards,” he and his wife, Sue Geston, who also hired COVID-19, “share an ambulance in the ICU,” Bridges wrote.
His wife was in the hospital for five days. Bridges was in the hospital with COVID for five weeks because “my immune system is triggered by chemotherapy,” he added.
A relieved bridge said he was able to fulfill his goal of walking his daughter Hayley down the aisle for his recent wedding and dancing with her “without oxygen.” He posted a video of the wedding dance in Ray Charles ’“ Ain’t That Love, ”which can be viewed here by clicking on the father and daughter sketch.
And, very similarly, he also shared this video about the home and the heart: