Graciela Alfano opened up about the cancer she had to go through (Wait Catalina. La Ounce Diez)

Grace Alfano You are showing how resilient you are at this point in your life. Just a few months ago, he was diagnosed with kidney cancer, for which he had to undergo major surgery to remove the tumor and the affected organ. A month later, he returns to the operating room for a thyroid problem.

in dialogue with Catalina Long for your radio show hold on catalinafor Once Ten, the actress shared how she feels after this difficult time.

“I always say that life sometimes presents you with different scenarios that you don’t expect, like illness, for example. I’ve taken care of myself all my life, I’ve always dieted, the body is my tool, I’ve done sports, exercise, yoga, etc. and really when life marks the ground, it puts you on the stage it wants. And today a tsunami is passing over me, like if the Atlantic Ocean passed me but there is no other possibility but to face it, ”Graciela began when talking about her health.

Immediately afterwards, he reflected, “What we can do is define the path, how we are going to get through what life presents to us. I had a very silent type of cancer, because you can have very good blood parameters but you can see it on ultrasound. For this reason, I want to emphasize how good preventive medicine is, I hope that all of society can really have access to it”.

Graciela Alfano: ‘They removed my thyroid and an entire kidney’

In her personal case, the fact of having taken care of her throughout her life helped her better cope with this disease. “For me it was very unexpected but the doctor said to me ‘thanks to the fact that you are in good condition, we were able to put you in the operating room in a week and solve all this’. Because let’s not forget that i am 70 years old i am a big old lady they removed almost 900 grams between the kidney and the tumor because this type of cancer grows from the inside out so they had to remove everything the kidney,” he said.

Then he added: “It was major surgery, I was left with significant anemia, I had to get up from that place, and once I was more or less recovered, the doctor took one more month as a precaution because what can be serious in these cases are infections. So, to go back to the operating room for a thyroid problem, the specialists had to be sure. This second operation was done by the gum, it is no longer cut as before. The operation was very precise because I had it on the vocal nodule, if it had gone badly I would be mute today”.

To go through this process, Graciela took refuge in her children and her friends. “At that time, my children arrived after an operation and they had a terrifying face. So, even though I was weak and with some handicaps, I started to support them, and to be able to do something for the other m ‘gave me energy and strength, because I was able to get out of the selfish thing,’ he admitted.

Graciela Alfano had reconciled with Enrique Capozzolo but they broke up again (Picture: File)
Graciela Alfano had reconciled with Enrique Capozzolo but they broke up again (Picture: File)

As for the brief romance he had with his ex-partner and father of his children, Quique Capozzolo, the actress confessed that she felt disappointed and angry. “Later we talked again and what we both agreed on is that we want to be united for our children. The truth is that I had a little delusion, if I must tell the truth . And it was a bucket of cold water that knocked me down. But hey, we keep talking and it’s fine. Now I’m saying this as a joke, but I also got a little mad at him. I I said “for your seventies, how fast you are,” he revealed.

And then Graciela bluntly added, “Giving people a second chance is like throwing daisies at pigs.”

However, this fact with her ex-husband does not obscure how happy she feels today to have recovered from the disease. “To the people who love me and who care, I tell you that I have done my first check-ups and that I am perfectly clean.”

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