Dave Coulier caught a cold during an advanced round of chemo. It could have killed him

Dave Coulier was doing OK with his chemotherapy for Stage 3 cancer, it seems — until helium got knocked retired by a communal cold.

“I started to get beauteous sick,” the actor-comedian tells Parade successful a caller interview. “I didn’t cognize that I had caught a virus. I was successful furniture for astir 10 days conscionable trying to fig out, ‘Do I person a cold? Am I conscionable feeling the ramifications of this cumulative effect of the chemo? What is going on?’”

Turns retired the “Full House” and “Fuller House” veteran, whose immune strategy has been compromised by the crab and its treatment, had a occupation with his lungs. Ground-glass opacities — a motion that’s communal successful COVID-19 patients — showed up connected his scans. He said the information that caused the opacities could person killed him if his woman hadn’t sent him for a checkup.

Even with that occupation addressed, Coulier was inactive successful lousy shape, due to the fact that the chemo broadside effects got worse arsenic helium progressed toward his sixth round.

“Neuropathy, which I hadn’t experienced before, started to increase,” helium said. “Nausea started to increase. Dizziness started to increase. They telephone it chemo brain, wherever you’re a spot foggy — that started to increase. My days of being capable to get up and locomotion astir and beryllium progressive started to decrease.”

Fatigue from aggregate rounds of chemo had him bedridden astatine his Michigan location by February, the period helium finished them up. Now helium has nary hairsbreadth but a increasing fig of hats, helium joked.

Coulier was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma past October and went nationalist with it successful November aft undergoing 3 surgeries and his archetypal circular of chemo.

His diagnosis came aft helium caught an precocious respiratory corruption and his lymph nodes swelled similar crazy. A node successful his groin swelled to the size of a play ball, truthful helium asked his doctors to instrumentality it retired and biopsy it. The results came backmost malignant.

He summoned immoderate levity during a November “Today” appearance, telling Hoda Kotb his existent champion gag was that successful 4 abbreviated weeks helium had “gone from a Virgo to a Cancer.”

“I’ve tried to clasp a consciousness of world but besides a consciousness of wit astir it,” helium said.

At the clip of his “Today” appearance, Coulier had mislaid lone “a small spot of hair” but managed to propulsion disconnected a close-cropped buzz cut.

Months later, successful Parade’s photos, helium was wholly bald — but had a large ol’ grin connected his face.

Former Times unit writer Nardine Saad contributed to this report.