Alice Manfrini, the Tiktoker who told of her illness died

She’s dead Alice Manfrini, the 24-year-old from Bologna who told about her illness on TikTok. The thousands of people who followed her on her social networks have greeted and thanked her in recent days, the last video of her is from November 1st, the first messages of condolences from her on the 10th. Alice had discovered in 2021 that she had Ewing’s sarcoma in her knee. She discovered the tumor too late.

“I live my life as if nothing happened” Tiktoker said just a few weeks ago. In her bio we read: «No rain, no flower», no flowers without rain.

The Bolognese girl had started having knee problems in 2020 during the lockdown. They came and went and many of her told her not to worry. The first analyzes had not indicated anything. There Tac it arrived too late also due to the delays accumulated with the pandemic. The diagnosis is in February 2021, immediate chemotherapy: six cycles and six operations. In between also the degree in economics.

He had also begun to tell his TikTok story because pandemic restrictions had limited hospital visits. “To play down came naturally to me because I grew up in an ironic and self-irony family,” she said in an interview. She recounted with optimism and without illusion what was happening to her in an interview with Today.it. «Years ago I happened to think “God, if it happened to me” and, among the scenarios that I had hypothesized, I never would have imagined myself like this. I was amazed at how quickly I rationalized everything. I thought I would get desperate, but it was all natural. I was also eager to start treatment, pragmatic. Sure, I was hurt too, but when you are in the middle, you understand that it is your reality, it is your life, it is happening, there is little to cry about, it must be faced».

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