Italian writer Michela Murgia revealed this Saturday (6) that she has advanced stage kidney cancer, with metastases to her lungs, bones and brain.
“There is no turning back from the fourth stage”, he declared in an interview with “Corriere della Sera”, recalling that he had already had cancer “in one lung” a few years ago, but it was a very early stage”.
According to Murgia, however, this time the tumor started in the kidney, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic he had neglected his exams, causing the disease to worsen.
The writer also explained that she is now being treated with biopharmaceutical-based immunotherapy, which does not attack the disease, but stimulates the immune system response. “The goal is not to eradicate the disease, it’s too late, but to buy time. Months, maybe many,” she said.
For Murgia, cancer is not something he has, it is something he is, “it is an accomplice to my complexity, not an enemy to be defeated”. “I can’t and won’t wage war on my body, on myself. Cancer is one of the prices you can pay to be special. I would never call you cursed or alien.
To call it that would be like feeling possessed by a demon,” he added.
The writer also said that “war assumes winners and losers” and, already knowing the ending of the story, she doesn’t feel like a loser. “It doesn’t matter if I don’t have much time: the important thing for me now is not to die a fascist”, declares Murgia, who defines himself as a leftist.
Finally, the Italian stressed that she is not afraid of death, but hopes to die only when Giorgia Meloni ceases to be Prime Minister of Italy, because her government is fascist.
After the publication of the interview, Meloni replied to Murgia saying she was rooting for the artist’s recovery. “I learned from the long interview that the writer Michela Murgia suffers from a very serious illness. I’ve never met her and I’ve never shared her thoughts, but I want to send her a hug and tell her that we’re rooting for her. And I really hope that can see the day when I am no longer prime minister, as he hopes, because I intend to stay and do my job for a long time.
Come on Michela “, concluded the premier. .
Source: Terra
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