Baricco: ‘I have leukemia, in two days the transplant. But between family and Taurus, I’m lucky … ‘

The social post of the Turin author from the hospital bed: “I live all this with many true friends, smart children, an irresistible life partner, and the best Turin since the scudetto”

The news is a slap in the face. Worse, a punch. That Alessandro Baricco tells with an almost disarming normality, entrusting his health conditions to social media: “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 “, the Turin writer posted this morning, attaching an emblematic photo with a computer, a book (” The Pickwick Circle by Charles Dickens “) and a diary next to a hospital bed.

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Those four things …

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Then he continues: “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 (well, it’s not that simple, we’ve been working on it for months, it’s patience). My sister Enrica will give me the stem cells, a woman who in my eyes was already quite special before this adventure, let alone now “. And then there is a passage in which he also manages to smile, in turn tearing a smile in a footballing key: “I wouldn’t want to add much more. Perhaps, well, I still want to say that every moment I feel the good fortune of living all this with many true friends around, smart children, an irresistible life partner, and the best Bull since the Scudetto. These are things, the first three, that change your life. The fourth certainly does not spoil you. In short, I see it well. Don’t count on me for a while, but on the other hand, don’t get used to it too much because the doctors who went into their heads to heal me have every air of being able to do it pretty quickly ”.

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