There are things you can hardly leave in the locker room, play sixty minutes and then come back and do it. This is what Amandine Tissier did for three years, renowned handball player, champion of France last year with Brest, and who has been fighting since 2018 against herself, against her body which is playing tricks on her because of multiple sclerosis.
Last week she announced that she was putting her career on his new Nantes club on break, to be able to heal himself, and because the showdown has become too severe. She tells it in a long interview with the newspaper The Parisian : “Multiple sclerosis never prevents, she says, and when it comes, it’s like when you fall asleep on your couch and wake up with your arm numb, but a thousand power, in all limbs, arms, legs, and ribs. In these times, it is impossible for me to hold even a glass.”
Official information: Amandine TISSIER puts her career as a professional player on hold https://t.co/flQL17Bmaz
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Amandine Tissier is 28 years old, she has a healthy life, does not drink, does not smoke, but here it is, her body has developed what we all carry in us without knowing it, the genes for multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease, that is to say triggered by the organism itself, which disrupts the nervous system, and affects 100,000 people in France. Without knowing why, without understanding its triggers, without a remedy either. Amandine Tissier is therefore fighting to tame the disease with several treatments, heavy care in terms of side effects. The latter, for example, has massively destroyed its white blood cells, in other words what forms the immune barrier against viruses and bacteria, making it even weaker. So she decided to put the ball down.
If you see me on the street, no one can guess that I have multiple sclerosis. I can still walk. For the rest, I try to remain optimistic, I think of something else, I struggle (…) life goes on.
Amandine Tissier, handball player with multiple sclerosis
at the Parisian-Today in France
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“When you’re a professional player, she says, we already have a very tight schedule, so adding hospital sessions and care is no longer manageable, but I want to stabilize my disease. So it’s a parenthesis, I don’t know if I will be able or want to resume. “Amandine Tissier is not the pessimistic type. Despite the illness, she is full of projects. She is already preparing a technical-commercial DUT to retrain, she also says her desire to become a mother, to have children.”I struggle, she says, I am well surrounded, and I try to remain optimistic, life goes on.”
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