Mike Bird’s drama
The 28-year-old from Amici and Xfactor struck by fulminant leukemia
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“The doctors have given us no more hope: now for our Michele it is only a matter of hours“. To give the most terrible news of all, in the early evening of yesterday, was Domenico Merlo, the father of the 28-year-old singer from Rosà, hospitalized at the Maggiore hospital in Bologna since Thursday evening, when he was hit by sudden convulsions which then led to to an emergency neurosurgery with the consequent diagnosis of a rare and merciless form of fulminant leukemia.
Yesterday, during the daily confrontation with the doctors of the Emilian hospital, the parents were prepared to face the end. «They told us that it can happen at any moment – explains father Domenico – There is nothing more to do. We just hope it happens quickly. We immediately refused any kind of therapeutic persistence: Michele would never have wanted it. We went to intensive care to say hello. It was beautiful and strong, as it always has been. He often went to the gym, he had built up considerable muscles. His mother was teasing him lately, telling him that if he punched someone with those biceps it would kill him. He replied: “Mom, I don’t even know how to punch.” Michele was like that: strong, decisive, a boy who never gave in to any kind of compromise who always remained in perfect line with his ideas. But also good and kind ».
Even if the death has not yet been declared, dad Domenico already talks about his beloved and only son in the past, as if it were an involuntary preparation for the end. On the illness of the nationally famous singer, launched by Friends e X Factor, and on the care that was given to him in the Emilian health centers in the days before admission, the family intends to shed full light. For parents Michele it would not have been properly followed up.
«Michele – explain mother Katia and father – had been feeling ill for days. On Wednesday morning he went to the emergency room of another hospital in the Bologna area. He had unexplained bruising, a fever, a nosebleed, and then that bad sore throat. The doctors, probably mistaking the symptoms described for a trivial viral form, had sent him home. Even during the intervention requested in the emergency room, on Thursday evening, it seems that the rescuers were not immediately clear about the gravity of the situation “. Michele’s father speaks of “superficiality” on the part of some Emilian health workers and promises to want to make “full clarity”.
Not only. On social media in the last few hours they have been wasted fake news of users linking the singer’s dramatic clinical condition to Covid; followed by even more inappropriate gods No Vax, who blame a vaccine that Merlo never received. On this point, the singer’s family are keen to “categorically deny what some uninformed people write on social media: Michele has in no way been vaccinated against Covid.
Michele was struck by a severe form of fulminant leukemia with subsequent cerebral haemorrhage ». Then there are the grief and the tens of thousands of messages of affection and support, arrived from the fans, from the entertainment world (Emma dedicated the concert to him from the Verona Arena) and music, but also from that of national politics, with the heartfelt closeness to Michele and the family also arrived from Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini.
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