“I got mesothelioma, a very bad tumor“. Franco Di Mare, Rai journalist, on ‘Che tempo che fa’ talks to Fabio Fazio about his illness. “This little tube that runs over my face is linked to an automatic respirator and allows me to breathe forcedly, but it allows me to be here to tell stories, to talk to you. It is a cancer linked to the presence of asbestos in the air“, he says. “You get it by breathing in asbestos particles, without realizing it or knowing it. An asbestos fiber is 6,000 times smaller and lighter than a hair. It has a very long shelf life, it can wait up to 30 years and when it appears it is often too late. However, the hopes do not end, the research continues”, he adds.
“Life ends when the referee blows his whistle, he hasn’t done it yet”
“It’s not true that there won’t be any possibilities tomorrow, but not at the moment. I’m here tonight to celebrate the idea that there is a solution that hasn’t been discovered yet but will probably be discovered. We don’t have to give up and we can go forward with reasonable hopes that there is a solution and that it is not that far away”, adds Di Mare. “I’ve had a beautiful life. The memories I have are full of life. I don’t want to get stuck around the idea of death. I want to connect to the idea that there is life. What I’m so sorry about is only finding this out now. It’s not late yet “.” It’s not late yet because – he adds -, as Boskov said, the match ends when the referee blows the whistle. My referee hasn’t blown his whistle yet.”
