The dramatic story of the conductor in Silvia Toffanin’s living room.
After a period away from TV Giancarlo Magalli is back on the small screen. Guest in the living room of Silvia Toffani a very truethe conductor spoke about his disease which forced him to a long recovery after contracting a bad infection and then discovering lymphoma.
“It was a delicate phase in my life. I lost 24 kilos, but I’m gradually recovering. Now I’m healed. I felt pain in my spleen and since I had fallen I thought it was a consequence of the fall. When I saw that I didn’t As it passed, I did some tests. In the same period I also caught a fairly serious infection, with a fever of 40. I was taken to the emergency room. I was treated for this infection with strong drugs and in fact I also had hallucinations and incorrect behaviors”
About the side effects, Magalli he added:
“I also ripped off the catheters I was wearing and did things that shouldn’t be done. They wanted to tie me to the bed. My family took turns staying close to me and watching over me.” “Then – she continued – I got better and the tests showed that I had lymphoma in the spleen area. It was treatable and in fact I recovered with the chemotherapy and the drugs they prescribed me. The tumor disappeared after 6 months of hospitalization and treatment. It wasn’t easy. My daughters were initially told that if I didn’t take care of myself I would be dead within 2 months!
This is the first time I’ve been seen on television after difficult months and I chose you. (…) My family took turns never leaving me alone. Every night I had someone with me. The daughters, the wife, everyone (..) The lymphoma is cured, but I’m undergoing treatments. It cost me more than 7 months in bed, then physiotherapy. It was not a walk and a simple thing. My daughters were told ‘if he doesn’t get treatment right away he’s dead in two months’. They were terrified by my side and I was cured immediately. – continued Giancarlo Magalli – Very few of my colleagues knew it. I hardly told anyone, I’m saying it now. Many will say ‘that’s why he was no longer seen’. I didn’t talk about it because I had to understand in which direction I was going”.
The conductor talking about his absence in Raihe pointed out:
“Whoever took over my plans probably expected me not to get back on my feet. I talked about the disease with friends who came to visit me. Other less friends didn’t show up, but I don’t care. My daughters, my ex-wives and even their current partners worried about me. I’ve been working at Rai for 50 years and I know it well. I know what its limits are. I said a while ago that gratitude isn’t really her strong point, I was a little angry, but it’s quite true. Rai changes constantly, we always talk to different people. I keep that in mind. I wrote to Stefano Coletta, the director, in the hope that something can be done. I think it would be better for him, given that all the plans I left due to the illness did not go very well!” Magalli concluded.
