At the end of the operation, she was hospitalized for 24 hours in intensive care, and dreamed of a baby. She felt that dream of hers so real that when she woke up she asked her mother to buy her a pregnancy test. It was then that her mother told her that during the night she heard a baby cry, even though there was none where they were.
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Silvia beat cancer and today celebrates life.
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Kindness: Silvia Torales
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The coincidences became a reality: the test marked a positive result and the joy of having a new possibility of giving life was immense for Silvia.
The pregnancy was very recent and at that time she did not contemplate that her treatment would shortly include chemotherapy sessions to save her own life, and that they could mean a risk for her or the baby that was gestating inside her.
With the result in his hands, he went to inform his family doctor of the news. About that moment, the woman told UNO: “After telling that I was pregnant they sent me to do studies. I had to undergo chemotherapy and I didn’t want to, because my priority was to protect my baby. They told me that I could ask for another opinion from a specialist in Santa Fe who is an eminence on the subject, so I would have peace of mind. I went and that doctor told me I was neither the first nor the last pregnant woman with cancer, and that after three and a half months, when the baby was already well formed, I would be able to continue with the treatment, since the placenta It acts as a filter.
“I was 35 years old at the time and when you are young, you take the world ahead of you,” he said, stressing: “They assured me that I was not at risk, but obviously my family and other people around me did not think so. and they were afraid. They were all very worried. I do not, because I am a great believer in God and I knew that everything was going to be fine.
That period passed and despite the resistance of her family and friends, Silvia trusted the health professionals, traveled to Crespo again and continued with chemotherapy. Until then, the pregnancy had progressed peacefully, the baby barely moving, but everything changed in that session. “What struck me the most is that in those first three and a half months of gestation the baby had not manifested itself, and in the first chemo it began to jump inside my belly,” he recalled, and stated: “After that, I was just calm when they did a 3D ultrasound and told me that everything was fine: the brain, the cavities of the heart, the spine. Everything was in perfect condition.”
There were four sessions, the last in the sixth month of pregnancy. The pregnancy came to term and finally, on August 16, 2005, Yulián was born. “He was born in Santa Elena and they were waiting for him with an incubator and an ambulance, because the doctors, they told me, did not know what they could find. He was born by cesarean section and weighed 3,300 kilos, ”he said, remembering that moment with tenderness.
Silvia said that she told Yulián her story over the years, showing him the photos of her pregnancy when her hair was falling out due to chemotherapy, at a time when she continued to face challenges, fighting cancer and other obstacles that arose in his life: “Six months after my son was born, his father abandoned us. We are left alone and move on. My whole life was one of struggle,” she maintained.
She was able to breastfeed her son and transmit all her love to him. And six years later, to give him another brother, Fermín, who is 10 years old today. From time to time he has to have medical check-ups, which show that he was able to overcome an illness that he often reflects on. In this context, he opined: “I believe that the State should always be present in these cases, because sometimes someone wants to be treated in a hospital and only gets an appointment in a while. And this is a disease that progresses very quickly. That is why I recommend women, and also men, to have regular check-ups.”
Yulián will turn 17 next month and he shared with UNO what he felt the first time he found out about everything his mother had gone through: “The first time I was very surprised. I didn’t know my mom went through so much. The truth is that it was impressive when I heard that she chose me no matter what. That was what shocked me, it is very special, ”said the young man, who today is an outstanding cartoonist and photographer and can capture his feelings in his works.
And grateful to Silvia, he summed up on his Facebook wall: “God gave me a brave mother, a fighter, who never gave up in the face of life’s adversities and who always put her children before her fears.” And he added: “Mother, I can never stop thanking you for everything you have done for me, for all those days you spent in chemo and therapy with me in your belly, for bringing me into this world even though your life was in danger, for all the pain that you had to go through for that illness and for me, for those days of work to bring bread to the table by yourself”.
“You certainly deserve everything good. Love you. After 14 years, you returned to do studies to see if the cancer had returned, but everything went well, and God gave you the opportunity to continue taking care of us, “he concluded in his post, full of emotions.
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