Fate was mercilessly cruel to the actress Zuzana Drízhalová, who was most famous for her role as Marcela Rubášová from the TV series Prima Rodinná pouta and later Very Fragile Relationships. The life of a talented artist ended prematurely. She would have celebrated her 48th birthday on January 27.
She battled cancer three times. She defeated her twice, but then she was beyond her strength, although she fought bravely for her life and believed that she would make it this time as well. Doctors diagnosed her for the first time oncological disease lymph nodes during the studies. She underwent surgery which went well. However, the insidious disease struck again five years later. Even then, thanks to treatment and her determination not to give up, she recovered. When the cancer returned six years later, she could no longer beat it.
She couldn’t even walk anymore
All the time, her husband Hynek, with whom she lived for fifteen years, was a great support. Seven months before their death, they adopted a baby boy, Jeníček, together. “She got angina in the summer. She took it easy and got a fever again in a few days. In the end we had to go to the hospital. I took her to Karlák, Jeníček in the back of the car, Zuzka could hardly walk anymore. We were hoping that he would get antibiotics and get rid of the sore throat. Then Zuzka did a sono and found out that she had nodes in her abdomen again, the lymphoma had returned. In three days, our lives changed completely. On the third day she got pneumonia and died of it. We lived with it. Zuzka said: ‘Do you know that you can stay here alone with a small child?’ This was clear between us, up front,” the widower Hynek confided to Instinkt magazine after her death.
She died before his eyes. He was holding her hand
According to him, Zuzana suspected that her time was up. “When I brought her to the hospital, she said she probably wouldn’t come home. She always knew before the devices that the disease was coming back. I told her in that hospital, ‘Look, I’m crying now, but I’ll be stronger, I’ll make it, I’ll take care of everything.’ This time it was more drastic. They put Zuzka into an artificial sleep so that she would have the strength to fight the inflammation. But the body did not respond. While she was awake, I drove to the hospital to see her. We only had to talk about technical things, I wrote her the nice ones in letters at night, she then texted me that it was a nice letter. And when they put her to sleep, I continued to write, every night, I wrote sixteen letters. She died on the sixteenth day. The doctors tried to wake her up so that we could at least say goodbye, but it was not possible,” Hynek described.
He sat at her bedside when she was dying. “The doctors called me that it was coming. I was just in the park with Jeník, the au pair called, I dressed decently and went to see Zuzka. She died before my eyes. The doctors told me it would take about four hours. I sat down next to her, took her hand and she slowly left. She died in thirty-five minutes. It was like in a movie, her heart stopped beating and that straight line ran on the monitor. I loved her terribly, if I hadn’t been with her at this very moment, I wouldn’t have forgiven myself,” concluded the widower.
As part of CNN Prima NEWS, David mainly writes about events on the domestic scene. ([email protected])
