The actor who played Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park said he was diagnosed with a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma but was 'alive and kicking.'
“The thing is, I’m crook. Possibly dying, I may have to speed this up,” he writes in the opening chapters,He said the book had provided a project to work on while he undertook treatment last year.
“I am used to going to work, and I suddenly couldn’t go to work — so that’s why I wrote the book,” he said in Saturday’s Instagram video. “I was very nervous, obviously, as a first-time author.” He described the tone of the book as one of “surprise” as he never expected to make a career of acting on screen.told
the Guardian that he first noticed swollen glands while doing publicity for “Jurassic World: Dominion” in 2022. He was later diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and said he undertook chemotherapy and started a new chemotherapy drug, which he needs to take monthly for the rest of his life.
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