At only 35 years old, the journalist Sara Carbonero She was diagnosed with cancer in May 2019 and her life took a 360-degree turn. Not only because she faced a reality unknown to her with all the strength and courage she had, but she did so with the continuous attention of the media spotlight. It was she herself who initially announced that she was suffering from the disease and since then her relationship with public life and the microphones became little by little distant while she lived with cancer, from which she overcame chemotherapy the same year as her diagnosis, was delicate and reflective.
of one’s own Titmouse No testimonies have emerged that bluntly express what their relationship with the disease was and continues to be. In all this time, he has found a way to vent on social media and tell in words all the feelings he has been feeling, and with each new message he shared with his followers, his state of health ended up being their latent background. Until now. For the first time, the presenter has spoken without being able to avoid getting emotional about cancer on a significant date very close to International Breast Cancer Day on October 19.
The magazine ‘ELLE’ celebrated this Wednesday, October 16, the fourth edition of its ELLE Cancer Ball at the Palacio de Santoña dressed in pink, as a nod to the color that represents the cause, to receive the guests. “Within the framework of World Breast Cancer Day we celebrate life, strength and unity in a new edition of EllexHope,” indicated the magazine’s social networks before starting the event that was attended by figures such as Ana Obregon, Eva Gonzalezwhich presented the gala, Cristina Pedroche, Paco Leon or Sara Carbonero, who collected the bravery award and gave the audience an emotional and sincere speech in which she burst into tears for the important step she took by publicly expressing her experience with cancer.
sincere words
«It has not been easy for me to make the decision to be here today collecting this award. Not because of what it means, which I love. But because for me this is the first time that I speak openly and publicly about my illness,” Sara began by recounting her speech. «Cancer was a word that I did not like to refer to, because I believed that if I did not name it it would not be a reality. It has taken me a while to accept that this is a long-distance race and that I am going to be an oncology patient all my life,” said Carbonero, already through tears. «I have learned to live with uncertainty, and also to embrace it. I have done a lot of personal work in this time and I have looked a lot inward. I have realized that this journey is best done accompanied. Cancer must be normalized, showing ourselves vulnerable is not bad, quite the opposite,” he said, referring to his continuous messages on social networks.
«I want to send a message of hope, of encouragement, for all the people who are living with and accepting this cruel disease. When I found out about the diagnosis, I was shocked. I was 35 years old, a healthy life, I didn’t understand anything. My head was full of whys. They recommended I go to a psycho-oncologist. But what I needed was to talk to women who had gone through the same thing and who, ten or fifteen years later, were still alive and strong,” she continued speaking before the attentive gaze of the rest of the guests and the cell phones that recorded the event for memories. important moment in the journalist’s life.
A message of thanks
In her speech, Sara Carbonero did not miss the opportunity to thank her for the love and support careful that he has received from his family and all those people who have been there for anything he needed. «I have learned that the power of love is the strongest. And this is where I want to remember all the people who have been by my side. They know who they are. I want to highlight my family, my mother and my sister, who have perhaps been the people who have suffered the most with me, my friends, my doctors and my reason for being, who you can imagine who they are,” he said without indirectly naming to their children.
Nor did she want to forget the rest of the women who live with the disease and its complicated treatments. «You can’t explain to him why his mother spends a week in bed after a chemo session. And then at 21 days the same thing, and at 21 days the same thing… And why doesn’t her mother have the energy that her classmates’ mothers have,” she said, completely broken. «My special love for all those courageous mothers who will be able to see, like me, their children grow up. “I am here thanks to medicine and love,” the journalist concluded emotionally.
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