Medicine has always fascinated her. Even more so when she had direct experience with the disease that took her husband. “But I’m not doing the Moci without illness show just to remember him. It is also a thank you to the doctors and a warning to everyone that prevention pays off,” appeals moderator Šárka Volemanová. How does he remember the difficult period? Why did hope never leave her? Will she be able to surprise her in her work as a presenter? And how far along is he with writing his new book?
“I met my husband as an oncology patient. He had a very unusual oncological disease, which no one really knew how to deal with. That’s when I understood that the most difficult thing is to find the right doctor, treatment options and hope for life,” recalls Šárka Volemanová, author of the radio program Moci bez nemoči, which focuses on news in treatment, about the turning point.
You can’t do it without hope
Over time, her husband’s illness brought her to the Institute of Oncology, for which she subsequently worked as the head of the PR department and press spokesperson. “For four years, I completely left the presenting profession. But I never regretted it. I met people there who, regardless of anything, always helped with the same intensity. Like Mr. Prime Minister Vydra. That’s when my interest in medicine grew even more,” says the presenter, whose discussion show Áčko on Nova TV became a legend.
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“People associated my face with the show a lot back then. And since it was a program where people went to tell their stories, they wanted to share them with me at the Institute of Oncology. It was very difficult because I used to go to work there and it happened that I didn’t see some of them in the morning because they died in the palliative care unit. And then I came home in the evening, where I had my troubles. My husband’s cancer has returned six times in ten years. That’s why I had to end there. The sadness was too much for me.’
Nevertheless, with hindsight, he agrees that oncology is actually a very optimistic field. “It is one of the most developing fields. There is the most news and the most options, which gives people a lot of hope. Life would not be possible without it, and that is why it is important that we do not take hope away from people, because then hopelessness comes. Fortunately, we have an incredible number of doctors in the Czech Republic who know how to give hope…,” added Šárka Volemanová for Close Encounters.
