The actress Marian Pabon She always had the unconditional support of her family and friends, but she had to overcome the difficulties that life brought her alone. It was difficult for him to take his daughter Ivana’s hand and give her the best that he could have given her.
“All my life I have fought alone”, he shared. “I had my family that always beat me, but with my daughter by my side, I fought to ensure that she received the best studies and the best education so that my daughter could be the wonderful woman that she is “It is a spectacular woman. It’s a miracle and I did it alone,” she repeated, without forgetting the help she received from her mother, her brothers, her cousin Lily García and her friends who are also her family: Jorge Castro, René Monclova, Cristina Soler, Suzette Bacó and Julio Ramos. A year ago, a life partner joined this battalion and is providing him with excellent support in this process.
When she found out about her breast cancer diagnosis (Her2K), she was worried for herself, but especially for her daughter. Last May they both danced like girls at Ivana’s wedding and weeks later she had to tell her that the two cysts in her left breast were positive.
“It hurts and saddens me because Ivana and I are very close. Ivana is my life, in reality I live for her and she just had such a beautiful and happy wedding so I have to beat her up about it because that is what is really destroying me.”, she said, deeply excited. “I know I will heal and move forward, but it’s about how I cope with her, how she moves forward, and how she can’t live next to me because her job is outside (the United States).”
The artist found out about her illness about three months ago after she felt a lump in her left breast. At that time I was filming a film and rehearsing for the comedy Desvestidas. She immediately contacted her gynecologist María Bonnin and from there she reached the radiologist Mayra Maldonado of Vida Imaging & Breast Cancer and finally the oncologist Báez Vallecillo, who explained in detail the type of cancer and the recommended treatment based on chemotherapy and antibodies over a period of time a year.
As you get older, people always tell you, “You have to enjoy every moment, every moment, because you never know what can happen.” Maybe that forced me to listen more, because I live in a hurry, I live fast.”
-Marian Pabon, actress
She told her daughter almost immediately because she was afraid something would leak on social media. Ivana was devastated by the news and arrived on the island shortly afterwards. He accompanied her to the doctors and when they both learned that it was a cancer that was aggressive but curable, they were relieved.
The interpreter has already had the first chemotherapy, the strongest of the seven to eight chemotherapy treatments that will be given to her because it was twice as high, and the worst thing so far has been the heartburn that causes her because she suffers from gastritis. “My digestive system is attacking… Everything tastes bad, everything tastes like vinegar, I have no appetite,” she said, who was first affected by cancer through her sister.
He knows his hair will fall out and he expected it and cut it. “I don’t have a problem with that,” he said. “I want to come out of this process, come out of chemotherapy, come out of it successful and be able to ring the bell and say, ‘I’ve been cured and it’s gone.’And for Ivana, she already has that security because I told her so. I’ll be fine”.
The cancer surprises her at a time when her mother is bedridden and begins to lose her memory due to senile dementia and she can no longer be as present as she was until recently, also leaving her emotionally shaken.
Her mother last saw her perform last year when she appeared in “Walking Miss Daisy” (Alfred Uhry), the play with which she will return to the stage on Friday, October 6, in the Theater Center’s Experimental Room of Fine Arts in Santurce.
“This piece, which is a wonderful piece, touches me a little because it touches me a lot because of my mother; “Obviously the role of ‘Miss Daisy’ starts at 73 and ends at 97, and I’m a little touched by the process of watching life fade away, and I see it in my mother,” he shared Highlighting the camaraderie is the rest of the cast: Willie Denton and Jimmy Navarro.
No matter how shocking it may be for her to be in front of a live audience again, this is what she wants to do because acting has always been a therapy, a lifeline for her.
I don’t know how to respond to the help they want to give me. The people, I have no idea how to reciprocate the love and desire, and the people who pray and wish me wonderful things and tell me I’ll be okay, but all my life I’ve done it alone . So a time has come when it is difficult for me to receive because I do not know, I like to give and have always given, and my friends tell me: “You have to learn to receive,” and it seems that the The time has come when I have to learn to receive
-Marian Pabón, artist
“I know I have to take all of that into account when I do the piece because there are a lot of emotions, but I do what makes me happy,” he said.