Gisella Aboumrad returned to Today to share with us some excellent news on Thanksgiving Day.
Almost completely recovered, the actress expressed that the surgery she underwent in early November was more complicated than she expected.
“I swore that it was a laparoscopic surgery, which was as the doctor had told me, but in order to save the kidney, it was a much bigger surgery, much more complex, longer and it took me a week to be in the hospital.” hospital,” he indicated.
Although her recovery has taken longer than she thought, Gisella feels grateful for the decisions her doctor made and that her kidney was saved:
“I thank the doctor and his entire team for having the patience to save my kidney.”
Gisella Aboumrad
“Thank God, all of this happened in the time and manner it should have happened. I thank the doctor and his entire team for having the patience to save my kidney.”
[Platicamos con Gisella Aboumrad y ¡tenemos buenas noticias sobre su cirugía de riñón!]
Cancer free
After the surgery and new medical studies being carried out to find out if the result had been as expected, Aboumrad received the best news.
“Thank God at this moment the greatest blessing is knowing that the day I went for my check-up and they checked the laboratories, the doctor told me, he took my hands and told me: ‘congratulations you’re cancer free”he explained.
The Mexican actress said she was proud and grateful for the upbringing her parents gave her, since they made her a strong and brave woman:
“I am grateful, first of all, for the temperament that God gave me, for the education that my mother gave me and for the joy that my dad always had, my dad was always a super happy person, a lover of music, a lover of history, art lover and he was like that very bohemian man and my mother was more grounded, but more drawn to faith, she is very Catholic and always puts God first, so I think that my family nucleus… was always, obviously, “which has brought me here.”
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wise advice
Gisella has had to face tough moments in her life, such as her two previous cancer diagnoses, but despite that she has managed to move forward with a smile on her face and an optimistic mind.
The artist shared with the Hoy Día audience some advice to be grateful and face bad times:
“There is always a way to be grateful for a small thing, I have always thought, even when things look very dark, you have to grab a piece of paper and a pencil and say ‘what things do I have today?’, five things, I really promise you that they will go to find five things for which you can be grateful, and that becomes a routine of doing it every day.”
