“I'm glad you called me now because I hope I'll be able to come to you and tell you why my oncologists think I'm a cyborg because of my resistance, but now that I'm the sixth “I didn't expect it, the days that followed were devastating. Yesterday I was so sick that I was wondering how I was going to do the interview. Eleonora Giorgi has no difficulty admitting it: the treatment of pancreatic cancer is very demanding. So much so that now, after the last cycle of chemotherapy, he feels all the suffering and fatigue of the journey so far. The actress and director said she discovered pancreatic cancer during a mammogram. “Nausea is a tremendous weakness, but above all a kind of dissatisfaction with food,” he further explains in Verissimo’s studies: “I look at an exquisite risotto with shrimps that I love and it seems like paper.” That's why “I have this difficulty eating, and if you don't eat, the chemo will devastate you.” However, he tries to evoke positivity, especially among those who are in the same situation as him. “I don't care about bad things, I get angry and say to myself: 'But will there be anything good?' Knowing how to find the beautiful and decent in any context is a salvation.”
Without hiding how difficult it is. “My life is now that of a soldier who has committed himself to the doctors' instructions, there is no other life: there is chemotherapy every 14 days, and the days in between have a defined course,” sighs the actress, “in between couple.” In the coming weeks we will know a lot, especially what can be done.” This moment, certainly not the only difficult one in her life, made her reflect on the difficulties and on her own character: “I think I had incredibly lucky with my figure because I had a life full of adventures, full of wonderful things and very hard. At 70, I feel like I've physically experienced it myself, like a 90-year-old. My heart now goes out to those who are facing my illness and who are younger than me, because in the end I have lived a lot.”
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