It was 2014, Milan was preparing for the 2015 Expo and Giuseppe Sala, then sole commissioner and managing director of the event, found himself in fighting once again against the lymphoma that struck him at the age of 39. The mayor of the Lombardy capital reveals it in a new episode of the podcast series 'Tre Desideri', a cultural project created together with Chora Media, with which the Italian League for the fight against tumors (Lilt) of Milan Monza Brianza has chosen to celebrate the World Cancer Day on Sunday 4 February.
“I would like to tell, in the hope that it will be of benefit to others, something that I have never told“, says Sala and reports Lilt. “In my case the non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was recurrent”, reveals the mayor, after having already mentioned the disease in previous years by speaking about it in the past tense. “In these 25 years – he explains – I have had two relapses. The last, perhaps the most difficult moment of my life, was in 2014, one year after the opening of Expo. The situation was difficult: we were late and Expo was called into question. I did one of the routine checks and they diagnosed the return of the disease. I'm saying it today for the first time: while I was fighting for Expo and showing confidence, I was undergoing light chemotherapy. I confess that at that moment I asked myself: am I strong enough to handle all this? And they are those questions for which you never have a certain answer. But you can do it, you have to do it.”
In the podcast Sala talks about the periodic checks and the psychological support that helped him, but also about how the tumor changed his life, his thoughts and his desires. “I felt a sense of real helplessness – he confesses – but the fact of not necessarily having to prove that I am the strongest keeps me with my feet on the ground today”.
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