Laura Boldrini talks about the loneliness of the disease: “I found strength in myself”

A frightening diagnosis, loneliness in the hospital at the time of Covid, the tiring rehabilitation: Laura Boldrini, former speaker of the Chamber, told the Courier service his illness. “It’s called chondrosarcoma, it is a rare tumor that attacks the bones. It affects many young people, it seems that I have had it for some time ».

While she was hospitalized, she lived “The loneliness of the disease”, which is “an aspect of life that affects those who pass through it in a different way. During my time in the hospital, with the visit restrictions imposed by the pandemic, I looked at myself and others trying to understand things I didn’t understand and to see things I couldn’t see. There are many people who, having to face a test of this type without having the opportunity to see family members, feel even more disoriented, lost, and it is an understandable feeling; but there are women and men who, in such a dramatic moment, have heard relieved of not receiving visitors».

Laura Boldrini belongs to this second category. “The fact that my daughter or my closest loved ones could not come to see me in the hospital, due to Covid restrictions, is as if she had forced to seek all strength in myself to face this test ».

Now the former Speaker of the House is trying to walk alone again, even if it is not yet possible: during the operation a piece of her femur was removed. It is necessary for the callus of his femur to form as quickly as possible but, in the meantime, for the moment, he must continue to use crutches. Work remains his “distraction”: “My parliamentary activity has resumed but I cannot exercise it in Montecitorio for now. The seat of the Chamber has a low seat, it is forbidden for a person in my current condition who has to extend his legs often ». A severe test: «A sometimes I lose my patience because it is a long journey and I would like to hurry ».

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