Posted on 05/26/2022 10:21:51 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Jeff Bridges is opening up about his serious bout with Covid, saying he came “pretty close to dying” and noting that “Covid made my cancer look like nothing.”
In an interview with People magazine, Bridges describes struggling for breath and being in pain during the illness, saying, “I couldn’t even roll over in bed without calling the nurse to help me with the oxygen.”
The 72-year-old Bridges contracted Covid in January of last year shortly after beginning chemotherapy for lymphoma. His cancer is now in remission.
At the time of his health crisis, Bridges was in production on the FX thriller series The Old Man, which halted production during his treatment.
In the People interview, Bridges says, “The doctors kept telling me, ‘Jeff, you’ve got to fight. You’re not fighting.’ I was in surrender mode. I was ready to go. I was dancing with my mortality.”
Also in the article, Bridges’ wife Susan Geston says she did not know if her husband would recover, and she instructed doctors to “Save his life. No matter what you have to do.”
The Old Man debuts June 16.
I had no idea the man was sick.
Probably shot him with Remdesivir.
LOLOL!! Great memory and find. Couldn’t find anything more apropos.
I’ve always liked Jeff Bridges and his dad before him. Jeff always has that sly, knowing smirk and grin as well as droll humor which I find hilarious.
Thank God he survived. I had no idea he was in such bad shape.
I had a bout of walking pneumonia a year before COVID hit and it was the scariest thing ever.
Weird huh. Others never even got CONvid. And a lot of them declined to participate in the great expiriment.
He’s alive, so I’m guessing they didn’t.
What a great movie.
72 hard charging years
on Chemo
Still beat it
Yep, that ChiComWuHuKillShot sure is absolutely required for healthy teens and even babies. It’s Science.
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Not surprising an actor is a drama queen and uses an illness (cancer) complicated by a respiratory infection as fodder for self-promotion.
I just watched that movie last night, for I don’t know how many times. Funny as hell.
Contracted.it at a time his immune system was being suppressed.
It certainly wouldn’t surprise me. A friend became very ill in the hospital after that shot.
I had the Fauci/China biological warfare virus, and I have four positive antibody tests to prove it.
It was just another flu.
Jeff, you had a comorbidity, of course the Covid is going to affect you more when you are battling cancer simultaneously.
Dude!
“It was just another flu” congratulations on a mild case. Many others have not been so lucky and are permanently disabled or worse...no that did not happen at the same rate it does with the regular flu.
I was shocked at how nasty it was when my wife and I caught it — and we’re very fit and not old.
Still didn’t make me run down to get the jab…
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