‘Normal Hospital’ star John York returns to set after most cancers battle

Mac Scorpio is again!

This week Normal Hospital followers will see John York, who’s been with the daytime cleaning soap since 1991, return to the collection. York joined Good Morning America on Monday to debate his return after taking a hiatus to endure therapy for myelodysplastic syndromes, or MDS, and a number of smoldering myeloma — two blood and bone marrow issues.

The solid and crew greeted York with “Mac Is Again” T-shirts, and York has felt nothing however love from his colleagues. “Everyone has been very welcoming, very supportive,” he advised GMA. “And right here I’m going already [chokes up], ’trigger I can not let you know how good it has been, the assist that I’ve gotten.”

York was first identified in late 2022, however he did not publicly announce the analysis till September of final 12 months, at which level he was getting ready to take a break to get well from chemotherapy and a blood stem cell transplant.

“I simply wish to say thanks for all of the assist through the years,” York mentioned in his social media announcement. “This is not goodbye, that is simply ‘so lengthy.’ I will need to take a break [from General Hospital] for at the least three, possibly 4 months, however I will be again.”

When York was first identified, his medical doctors knowledgeable him that he would dwell roughly three to 5 years if he took no steps towards therapy. At first, he balanced his therapy plan along with his work on Normal Hospital.

“[I’d do] seven days of chemo in Tennessee, after which I used to be out there to work for 2, three weeks in California,” he advised GMA. “My philosophy was at all times someday at time, let’s simply get by at present.”

York additionally defined that his formal announcement of his analysis motivated many to hitch the Be the Match registry to assist these in want of marrow and stem cell transplants discover a donor. The actor was fortunate to search out an actual match for his blood stem cell transplant.

“It is only a bag of blood and fluid, they usually put it in my physique,” he defined. “Forty minutes later, and now I am this individual and my cells are actually combating one another and battling one another and attending to know one another. And right here we’re, again to work.”

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Regardless of his break from Normal Hospital, York mentioned that he does not really feel like he is been away too lengthy. “I simply felt so hooked up that I did not really feel like I missed something,” he concluded. “I really feel like I simply had a bit break, a bit trip I assume, and needed to undergo one thing and now we’re right here on sort of the opposite aspect of it.”

His first episode again will air on ABC on Wednesday.