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Laura Boldrini she is trying to walk alone, but if physically this is still not possible, it is morally that the former Speaker of the House is triumphing over herself. And also about the disease, which changed her life out of the blue.
She has always been a woman able to fight her battles with determination and now that she is faced with the toughest one she is no less resolute, indeed. “Sometimes I lose my patience because it is a long journey and I would like to hurry up”, he tells the weekly magazine 7 of Corriere della Sera.
The evil that hit her has a name: chondrosarcoma, “A rare tumor that attacks the bones. It affects many young people, it seems that I have had it for some time ”. Providential the insistence of a friend, who pushed her last March to carry out specific checks, from which it emerged that there was no time to waste. So a rather long piece of femur was removed, replaced by a titanium prosthesis around which the callus must reform, a word that recurs frequently in her vocabulary in recent months.
Of this period, however, an awareness remains: “The solitude disease is an aspect of life that affects those who pass through it in a different way. During my time in the hospital, with the visit restrictions imposed by the pandemic, I looked at myself and others trying to understand things I didn’t understand and to see things I couldn’t see. There are many people who, having to face a test of this type without having the opportunity to see family members, feel even more disoriented, lost, and it is an understandable feeling; but there are women and men who, in such a dramatic moment, felt relieved not to receive visitors ”.
She belongs to the second category. “The fact that my daughter or my closest loved ones could not come to see me in the hospital, due to the restrictions of Covid, is as if it had forced me to look for all the forces in myself to face this test “.
Laura Boldrini is trying to walk alone, we said. And we are sure he will make it this time too.
