Sitting in the hospital room, accompanying someone who is now having a hard time, I watch the disaster of the Valencia floods on television while I ask myself:
–Could things get even worse?
And then I remember Sir Chris Hoy and I say yes: in some cases, things are even relatively worse.
(…)
Chris Hoy, star cyclist, has terminal cancer and his wife has sclerosis; How do you tell your children?
Sir Chris Hoy is 48 years old, with a wife (Sarra) and two seventeen-year-old children (Callum and Chloe), and a Knighthood of the Order of the British Empire, and also has a range of golds in cycling in the velodrome, six Olympic victories (between Sydney 2000 and London 2012) and eleven world victories, but all that glory is ephemeral and today it is nothing, because its house of cards is collapsing.
–You know, we are all born and we all die, and this is only part of the process –he declared to Sunday Times just fifteen days ago.
Because Sir Chris Hoy’s life is extinguished.
(And in this, it is evident that we are all equal, no matter how unique we believe ourselves to be).
Sir Chris Hoy has between one and three summers left in this world, according to the medical diagnosis he was given last year. Shoulder and prostate cancer has spread to the rest of the body and has now become strong in the pelvis, hip, spine and ribs.
Former Olympic cyclist Chris Hoy waves as he is introduced on Center Court at Wimbledon this past July
The pain is so extraordinary, they say, that their extraordinary capacity for resistance has been dismantled.
Such a sports colossus has given up chemotherapy, and in this way the man seems to be giving up, saying goodbye to this world, but that’s not all, friends, don’t go away yet: last Christmas, Sarra began to feel weak, and Then came muscle blockages, tremors and spasms, and the visit to the doctor led to devastating news. Sir Chris Hoy’s wife suffers from multiple sclerosis, and it is a variant so active and aggressive that it requires urgent treatment and is irreversible.
As he told Sunday TimesSir Chris Hoy has promised Callum, his first-born, that he plans to live many more years, but he has not told him about Sarra’s trial, and we will see when he manages to do so, well, let’s see which superhero is capable of telling his children that Soon, they will lose both of their parents, and all those projects that the beautiful family had forged, and among them the wonder of reliving with the grandchildren all those moments that the grandfather had achieved, will be gone in a flash. carry the wind
(I’m sorry for the harshness of this column, but sometimes the world gets cloudy.)
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