Nickelodeon legend Marc Summers of Double Dare and Unwrapped fame has opened up about how he has survived several near death experiences. As reported by People, he explained that he both battled cancer and experienced a car crash that nearly killed him.
"It's been 15 years now" since his diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. "I live with it." According to the Mayo Clinic, the leukemia is a slow-growing type of cancer associated with white blood cells.
For the Nickelodeon legend, things were difficult - he had been trying to treat the disease for a while. "I had chemo three different times," he revealed.
"But last time, the chemo didn't work, and so they said, 'These are the choices - we'll either have to put you on the really heavy stuff, and you'll lose your hair and you're going to be really sick, or there are these new pills that you can take. They don't work for everybody, but if they work, it's pretty special."
He explained that the pills "make sure that the white cells are doing what they need to be doing and that the CLL, the chronic lymphatic leukemia, stays away."
"I take them every day, and I will take them for the rest of my life," he explained. Luckily, it ended up working quite well for Summers, with it managing his condition.
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That Wasn't the Only Close Call for the Nickelodeon Legend
But, unfortunately, that wasn't his only close call. Back in 2012, a taxi drive in Philly went wrong after the car went veering into the median.
"I did not have my seatbelt on," he admitted. "I went flying, and I hit the credit card machine right in front of me and it knocked me out. I woke up a bit afterwards, didn't know what planet I was on."
He'd ended up with "every bone" in his face broken following the crash. Luckily, the doctors managed to reconstruct his face - although he's still slightly self-conscious about "one eye [being] a little lower".
About the incidents, he explained that he does "feel lucky to be alive... after what I've been through". We're certainly glad to hear he's still kicking!
