Among the most important war reporters of our country, Francesca Mannocchi recently revealed his battle with multiple sclerosis. He talked about his illness to Today is another day: “When you get news like this, you get more courage. This disease is the disease of unpredictability, it reminds us that we are not infallible and immortal. One morning I woke up and the whole right side of my body was asleep and not responding to any stimuli. I thought it was tension and nervousness, but after six days of being like this she realized it was something new. The diagnosis of such complex diseases takes a long time and many analyzes, it may happen that it is an isolated case that does not repeat itself, but to be sure it was that disease I had to wait a long time ».
“It is a subtle disease, it is often symptomatic, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who fall ill with this disease. You don’t know what will happen to you, it has two aspects that are difficult to accept: it is an autoimmune disease and it is the disease of unpredictability, a bit like what we are all experiencing “, he added Francesca Mannocchi, who then remarked: “I’m more afraid for the people who are close to me than for me”. And the prevailing feeling is anger: “I tried and still feel a lot of anger about this disease”. (MB update)
Francesca Mannocchi’s battle with multiple sclerosis
Francesca Mannocchi, war correspondent forEspresso, found out 4 years ago that she was ill. In 2017, at 39, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The journalist in the book “White is the color of the damage”Tells how the disease has upset all aspects of his life. “White” is the signal of the disease in the language of the MRI. In an interview with Asim (Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association), Francesca Mannocchi described the first symptoms of the disease: “It happened that in 2016 suddenly one morning, while I was in Sicily for work, I woke up with the right side of the body from the shoulder to the foot tingling, asleep. This sensation lasted continuously for six days … Then the tingling stopped by itself, without me doing anything, but annoying electric shocks started on my left arm. Part of me told me that what I was feeling was all extraordinarily anomalous”.
Francesca Mannocchi and multiple sclerosis: the fight against the disease
In his book Francesca Mannocchi she confesses that multiple sclerosis has also questioned her role as a mother, her relationship with her son Pietro. “The disease had been there for some time, the doctor had said, something prompted her… She needed a lever, and that lever – perhaps – was my son. In the months immediately following the diagnosis, I thought (and named) unspeakable things: if Peter hadn’t been there, would I be sick?”, We read in the pages of the book. The disease also taught her that you shouldn’t be afraid to ask for help: “Verbalizing a moment of fragility is already a part of the cure… This illness taught me the radical value of optimism and is also important in the relationship with my son. Today I’m fine and then we can run, play, go to the fields, play football”He told Asim. On the pages of the Espresso he added: “Sclerosis has taught me a new way to smile“.
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