Fedez, who brought the disease into The Ferragnez 2

How one reacts to illness is one of the most private facts of life, perhaps more so than death itself. The American Susan Sontang in 1978, at the first diagnosis of cancer, he had written an essay about it, Illness as a metaphor. The most correct way, he argued, is to consider it as free as possible from metaphorical thoughts. Without victories or defeats, and above all without guilt. “Cancer patients are lied to,” explained Sontang, “not only because the disease is (or is believed to be) a death sentence, but also because it is considered obscene.”

Several years later Oriana Fallaci she would later speak of an “alien” who had entered her body, taking possession of her. Today Michelle Murgia instead, he asks not to consider her a warrior. “Cancer is not something I have; it’s a thing that I am. The doctor who follows me explained it well to me, a genius. Single-celled organisms have no neoplasms; but they don’t write novels, they don’t learn languages, they don’t study Korean. Cancer is an accomplice to my complexity, not an enemy to be destroyed. I cannot and do not want to make war on my body, on myself », her words.

In these days we returned to talk about Fedez and his illness. The rapper had already told everything about the diagnosis, treatment and operation in his time, but now I am the cameras of the family TV series, The Ferragnez 2to go inside. Inside the fear, inside the hospital, inside the hopes.

At a certain point in the first episode, it is the protagonist himself who brings up the question that we read almost everywhere in these hours. «What the fuck do you self-recover before an operation? One thinks: are you crazy?»says Fedez, then explaining his reasons: «I did it symbolically as a legacy for my children». Fedez puts his greatest fear on paper: “Not to be remembered by my children. My desire is to see them grow up”. He also makes a list, before the surgery, and shows it: the list of things to do that are worth surviving for: «Go and scam a casino in Las Vegas. Doing the San Siro alone. Have another child. Go to Eurovision and win a Grammy».

Everyone manages the disease as they see fit. Point. And to the question «What the fuck do you self-recover before an operation?» only one person can answer.

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