Alessandro Baricco has returned home. Less than three weeks after the stem cell transplant, the writer left the Candiolo Cancer Research and Treatment Institute today, where he was hospitalized. The surgery is technically successful and the post-operative course, according to what we learn, was optimal, but the next few months will be important for everything to go in the best way.
The news of the illness of the author of Oceano Mare e Novecento has aroused a lot of emotion not only in the world of culture. “Forza Alessandro” wrote thousands of people on all social networks. It was Baricco himself who announced on social media, last January 22, that he had been diagnosed with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
“Um, there is news to give and this time I have to give it myself, personally. It’s not that great, I warn you. What happened is that five months ago I was diagnosed with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
I was upset, but not that bad, come on. When you have such a disease the best thing you can do is undergo a blood stem cell transplant, which I will do in a couple of days “Baricco had written, explaining that his sister Enrica would have donated the stem cells to him,” woman who in my eyes was already quite special before this adventure, let alone now ».