And cancer benign as big as a ball. It’s what they took out of his abdomen Elena Barolo, the former Velina of Striscia la notizia between 2002 and 2004. She told the weekly Di Più that she was very afraid. «It all started ten years ago, when during a normal check-up the gynecologist discovered a small growth of a few millimeters in the uterus, a uterine myoma, a benign tumor that didn’t give me particular discomfort, the doctor had only told me to do regular controls.”
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Checks that gave the always hoped-for signals: «Over time the myomas became two and every year they grew by a few millimeters, but everything was still normal.
Since last year, however, I started having problems, my menstrual cycle had become very heavy and painful and a kind of protuberance could be seen on my belly, also because I am very thin and it was clear that there was something strange…” . Then “I had an MRI to avoid something bad, but since they continued to get bigger they recommended surgery, plus I could also run another risk…”.
A risk if Elena Barolo and her partner, the stylist Alessandro Martorana, they had a child. “In that case I would have had problems during pregnancy, because a child would not have had enough space to develop.”
The intervention
For this reason – he tells Di Più – he decided to have surgery last January 26th for a procedure that lasted five hours. «I was very tense, also because I had never undergone surgery. I tried to live it with the greatest possible serenity. After the pre-anesthesia, I started to relax, I looked around and it almost felt like I was flying, like I was on a spaceship in space… Then, before giving myself general anesthesia, someone brought me back to reality and told me: “Elena, now think about something beautiful”, my mind went to my little dog Whiskey and I closed my eyes».
When she woke up, the first thing the doctor said to her was: «Elena, I removed eight uterine myomas, the equivalent of a ball the size of a baby in the fifth month of pregnancy». In short, “what I had in my abdomen was a lot of stuff.”
Among the many people who were close to her was also Giorgia Palmas, her “colleague” on Striscia la Notizia: «After more than twenty years we continue to be very close, for me she is like a sister».
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