She discovers that she has an inoperable tumor a month after the wedding: today Antonella Guidi is safe thanks to Nadia Toffa’s non-profit organization
It was September 2019 when Antonella Guidi, a then 37-year-old woman from Pietramontecorvino, in the province of Foggia, discovered, a month after her wedding, that she had an inoperable brain tumor. Despite everything, she didn’t give up and thanks to the help of the non-profit foundation dedicated to Nadia Toffa, she found someone able to help her and give her a future. Interviewed by La Repubblica, she told her moving story.
Going from the dream of living a happy and peaceful life with your husband, to the nightmare of seeing your life slip away. This is what she lived in 2019 Antonella Guidi, a then 37-year-old woman originally from Pietramontecorvinoa small municipality in the province of Foggia.
Everything, as he says today in an interview with The Republicbegan in September of that year, just a month after she married her husband. Dizziness And facial paresthesia which pushed her to contact her doctor, who prescribed a cortisone treatment which, obviously, had no effect.
She subsequently went to the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo, where the tests put her face to face with a devastating truth, a inoperable cerebral meningiomasince it is located in the cavernous sinus, an area that is impossible to reach.
Following the diagnosis, she went to the Carlo Besta neurological institute in Milan, where the doctors subjected her to Cyberknifea technique that involves bombarding the affected areas with high doses of radiation:
A very strong therapy that made me lose sight in my right eye and reduced the field of vision in my left. But that still hadn’t solved anything.
The turning point in Antonella Guidi’s fight for life
Despite everything, Antonella she never gave up. She never stopped looking for a solution to what was happening to her and, with another try, she turned to the Nadia Toffa Onlus Foundationthe late journalist of Le Iene who passed away in 2019 due to a brain tumor.
The Foundation published an article online in which it explained Antonella’s medical situation, catching the attention of Dr. Matteo De Notariswho got in touch with her and rekindled her hopes.
On January 9th of this year I went to him. He told me that the surgery could be done and put me on the waiting list for endonasal and transorbital microsurgery. Last April 17th I was operated on under total anesthesia with an operation that lasted ten hours.
Today Antonella has not yet completely defeated the disease. She still has pain in her eye and head, but her dizziness has almost completely disappeared and, above all, she sees a future ahead of her. The 42-year-old decided to tell her story so that those who read it can find courage in a moment in which everything seems to be discouraging and leading to an already decided epilogue.
Don’t stop at the first diagnosis and closed doors. Don’t do it. Because sooner or later something, like a phone call, that changes your life comes.
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