Carlinhos de Jesus speaks of first effects and treatment of the disease that led him to the wheelchair

The dancer and choreographer Carlinhos de Jesus72, spoke of the recovery process after the diagnosis of an autoimmune disease that influenced its movements, requesting the use of wheelchairs and crutches. In an interview with Fantastic This Sunday 31st, he reported challenges and how his relationship with dance was influenced.

“This will also break me. Look back and watch what I spent. And I’m here,” he said. “Dance is a form of resistance,” he added. “It was the dance that saved me, because all the great losses I had in my life, dance is my mirror, my sofa. Now, I don’t have this sofa,” he complained.

The dancer also spoke of the changes in the relationship with dance. “Now you have to coordinate your hand with your foot and head, before it was just the leg,” he said. “(When I close the eye) I imagine dancing, with a wheelchair and without wheelchairs, “he replied.

In a chat with the #FantasticThe dancer and choreographer, Carlinhos de Jesus told details on the beginning of his illness that limited the movement of the legs. pic.twitter.com/b4go4mj0sf

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In the interview, the dancer recalled that he started losing part of his right leg for about three years. It was in June, however, that the situation worsened, with the beginning of what describes as an “unbearable pain”. “It was in Rio Grande do Sul, in the city of Passo Fundo, I started to feel a pain that I could not put my foot on the ground. I could not walk,” he recalled.

He said he looked for a doctor as soon as he returned home, in the hospital in sequence. “When I arrived in Rio de Janeiro, I could no longer suffer. And I was able to fall,” he says. “It was so much pain that the drug for me sleep was morphine.”

In addition to an autoimmune disease that affects the nervous system, the dancer was also diagnosed with inflammation in the hips and tendonitis in the buttocks. “My head today lives today. But when I think, ‘And tomorrow?’. Then I start to terrify myself. How will I live?”

The strength of Carlinhos de Jesus is stimulating, right? I’m vibrating for his recovery! #Fantastic pic.twitter.com/stnetrr6wn

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To this end, it was a treatment with immunotherapy, bodybuilding, functional exercise and physiotherapy. “It’s a moment of patience, resilience, calm. So I can walk,” he said. I took so many chills, so much blow, the last shot hurts today, “he said Reference to the murder of the son, Carlos Eduardoat 32, in 2011.

Carlinhos was enthusiastic about telling the Participation in the traditional Joinville dance festival in Santa Catarina, where she danced in a wheelchair. “‘The commission of the Festival wants Carlinhos de Jesus here as it is. It does not come really if he does not want, but the festival wants it here, because it is an authority. His presence is important at the Festival.'”

At this point, the dancer was electrified. “She, when she said, cried. I could never imagine that the Joinville Festival said it. At the same time, I started doing, I have already put on another atmosphere, another energy: ‘What am I going to do with a wheelchair (in terms of choreography)? ‘”He added.

Source: Terra