Dave Coulier shares update after multi-night hospital stay following cancer treatment

Actor Dave Coulier is feeling optimistic about his future, despite an unexpected past few months.

The 65-year-old “Full House” alum was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in October, but recently completed his sixth round of chemotherapy and says he’s feeling more like himself every day.

“I’ll tell you this. Today is the first day that I really feel like, ‘Wow, I’m feeling pretty darn good. I feel like myself,’” he said during an exclusive interview with Parade, published March 31.

But that was after things took a sudden turn for the worse.

In the interview, Coulier revealed that he recently spent multiple nights in the hospital due to a common cold that had him confined to a bed for more than a week.

He was discharged from the hospital on Feb. 22, just four days before his Zoom interview with Parade.

“I didn’t know that I had caught a virus. I was in bed for about 10 days just trying to figure out, ‘Do I have a cold? Am I just feeling the ramifications of this cumulative effect of the chemo?” he told the outlet.

Coulier had just finished his latest round of chemo when he started to feel sick.

“I was in such a daze when I walked out of the hospital, my wife looked at me [when] we got in the car, and she goes, ‘We forgot to ring the bell,’” he admitted.

Coulier was referring to the bell cancer patients ring after completing chemotherapy treatment.

But now that he’s feeling better, Coulier is opening up about some of the symptoms and side effects he has experienced since learning of his diagnosis.

Those symptoms included neuropathy, nausea, dizziness and “chemo brain,” which had him feeling “a bit foggy” mentally.

“The symptoms were getting worse and worse with each treatment,” he explained to Parade. “My days of being able to get up and walk around and be active started to decrease.”

While his desire to move and work around the house never left, Coulier says his symptoms were so bad by his sixth treatment that he thought, “Wow, this is how it’s going to go.”

But he credits his wife, Melissa, 41, for helping him make the necessary lifestyle changes that have him feeling so optimistic today.

“Seeing my wife exhausted on those days when I’m like, ‘Can you get me some water?’ and ‘I haven’t taken my pills yet’...” he told Parade. “She’s been running ragged helping me.”

From changing his sheets soaked with sweat to fixing his diet, Coulier’s wife is doing everything she can to help him maintain a sense of hope.

“That’s the picture that will stay with me — how this affects your family members,” Coulier continued. “People who go through this know exactly what I’m talking about.”

One of the biggest changes he has made over the past few months is the foods he eats.

“I gave up a lot of fun foods,” Coulier said in the interview, noting that he had to cut out sushi (and raw fish, in general) due to the bacteria levels that can exist.

He also revealed that he “completely cut out all sugar” to help cut down on inflammation in the body.

“I’m a firm believer that what you put into your body is exactly what you’ll get back,” Coulier explained. “I had a lot of inflammation, and once I stopped sugar, it was gone in a matter of seven days.”

But even with his commitment to staying positive, Coulier says fear of the worst case scenario never goes away.

“I think everybody’s mind goes there,” Coulier says of death, per Parade.

“It’s part of the reality of life. Like, ‘Wow, this is really serious’ and ‘What’s the worst that could happen?’ I’ve seen it so often in my family,” he continues.

Coulier isn’t the only member of his family diagnosed with cancer.

The actor’s mother (Arlen), sister (Sharon), and niece (Shannon) have all died from breast cancer — and his older sister (Karen) currently lives with cancer.

Not only that, but Coulier’s own diagnosis came just a few years after losing his 91-year-old father in 2022 and younger brother in 2021.

“I never thought that he would actually ever be diagnosed with cancer. It was kind of a wild thing, even though cancer is so prevalent in his family history,” Coulier’s wife said in his Parade interview.

Still, that hasn’t stopped Coulier from staying positive and using his story to inspire others.

“I’m in a position where I can inspire others,” Coulier explained. “A negative attitude doesn’t inspire anybody. Positivity, though, can take you a long way.”

That positive attitude was met with some positive news just a few weeks back when he had a biopsy on a lymph node in his neck.

The results showed that there is “no sign of cancer” in the lymph node.

“One of the few times in my life when ‘zero’ has been a great number to hear,” Coulier joked to Parade.

To add to the positivity, Coulier’s only son, Luc, welcomed his first child on March 27 — making Coulier a first-time grandfather.

The comedian is now awaiting the results from an additional CAT scan to determine if his cancer “will be in the rear-view mirror.”

If he receives more good news, Coulier says he plans on returning to the hospital with his wife to finally ring the treatment bell.