"I have never cried in front of him"

A mother must do it too. Pretend that everything is normal, when everything collapses and would like to collapse too. Elena Santarelli tells of having done so after receiving the diagnosis that no parent would ever want to hear. It was last November 30th and after a resonance made only as a precaution (for "the intuition of a mother") to Giacomo's son, 8 years old, he was diagnosed with a tumor. Since then, she has never cried, at least in front of him. "Sometimes, I wonder: how is it possible, but in some situations the force is coming," he said in an interview with Corriere della Sera "I've never treated my son as a patient, I always told him that chemo, you study and this created a normal in my life and in his . "

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Since then the family (father is the former footballer Bernardo Corradi, and there is also the little sister Greta, 2 years old) who unites and fights together: "It is said that a tumor annihilates life. Each case is different, but my son runs, eats, laughs has a normal life of 60-80%. I would like mothers to have hope. "For this reason, he adds, he has decided to make his fight public with a long social post dated November 2017. To help the research The Heal Project , the non-profit organization in charge of pediatric neuronology in collaboration with Rome's Toddler Gesù, where the child is responsible, is particularly at heart.

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The early evening remember, was the most difficult: "I did not want Giacomo to see the children intubated, we could not say immediately: Now you chemo, you lose your hair, you fight cells . "Slowly we arrived, and also to rebuild this normality which is fundamental is not lost.It started to take a turn, to put the usual lipstick " even if I felt judged, to the hospital, with lipstick. "But she is still convinced that she did well:" When my son says today that he is faster than me to get dry hair, I think it's joking, we hit center . "Tears, when they escape, only in secret:" Put a child in the world and you want to protect it, but you do not know that you can feel so helpless. "

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The Future is a hope:" We are waiting to hear that we are at the end of the therapy. It will not be soon. The path is long, we hope to be in the 80% who are saved. "