A 18 years after receiving the news that she had stage 1 breast cancer, Adamari López revealed that it was thanks to a stomach ache that she visited her doctor and thus discovered that the lump that you thought was part of your menstrual period was actually a malignant tumor.
This October, breast cancer awareness month , Adamari was a guest on the journalist Mónica Mendoza’s Podcast ‘Mija Talks’, which she titled ‘Let’s Talk About the Tits’, there the presenter of ‘Hoy Día’, remembered what he lived through years, when with years She was in her best moment both professionally and personally, since she had just gotten engaged to Luis Fonsi, and was only thinking about planning the wedding, when she received unimagined news.
“Does 18 years ago, by chance, I touched my breast, I was scratching myself… Since I had my period I thought about those nodules that come out, but still I went to the doctor for another pain that it hit another part of the body and since it was there…”, Adamari began by telling Mendoza.
That’s how, due to stomach pain, she left with two prescriptions to have rays: one for her most urgent discomfort and a mammogram, just to rule out bad thoughts.
“Nothing came out of the stomach, but a tumor did appear that the radiologist thought was malignant and that had to be biopsied… From then on it began that roller coaster of feelings and emotions that triggered in finding out that had a malignant tumor in the breast, the operations, the second, third and fourth opinions that I had to do, and all the process that I had to go through to recover “, he continued in this talk of two women talking about the processes of life.
As he explains in ‘Mija Talks’, what following the news was taking action, which involved a path of many trials. “ I had 6 chemotherapies, with some injections that followed, plus the removal of the breast, and later I had to remove the other one because it had micro calcifications that I had to keep checking”, but no it all ended there, because unintended variables slipped into the process.
“When I removed the other breast it gave me MRSA, which is like a disease that is a bacterium resistant to penicillin and that is very difficult to eliminate from the body, you have to have a slightly more aggressive treatment. In short, it was complicated but I went well, I already have years as a survivor and I feel fine, in good spirits, without any desire to have any other disease again, but with the message and the teaching of what I experienced ”, López assured the Colombian journalist.
Monica asked Adamari for the hardest moment during her entire journey through cancer, to which the presenter and actress did not hesitate to confess which was the very beginning of all this:
“The hardest blow is the initial news, seeing me healthy, well, at that time I had just gotten engaged to get married , it was as if they put a fist in my face and they knocked me out, suddenly I wake up confused of what happened… At that moment I didn’t want it to be hopeless because I got very good energy… I was more concerned about the reaction of everyone around me, my dad who had heart problems and I thought it might affect him. ct giving him an arrhythmia… Seeing them suffer so much and me having to hide my feelings so that he would be fine”, he recalled.
Mónica Mendoza asked her one of those questions that are usually the curiosity of all women, and one of the greatest uncertainties for those who receive the news: what happens when you look in the mirror again missing one or both breasts?
“Everything is a process, I I felt that I had such beautiful breasts, proportionate to my height, I still thought I was young, I had 33 years old, I was coquettish, about to get married, I wanted to have children, I wanted to breastfeed… Suddenly I find myself with one less breast , they put an expander on you, and they create a space for you in all that they removed between the mass and the muscle, and it was higher on me.
I had one breast where it normally was and another one higher up, it looked like a deformity in the chest, but my thoughts were positive, I myself worked on the head that Now I was going to have some cuter ones. It doesn’t mean that it wasn’t hard, before each job there was suffering, but it doesn’t mean that it won’t happen… I had a lot of faith in God, and I was fortunate to have my family. and the people who want me around“, explained Adamari.
A 18 Years after having gone through this whole process, Ada confessed to Monica that the disease taught her to listen to her body, something that she reaffirmed when she neglected herself and an influenza that was not treated in time returned her to a hospital where she even had to go through an induced coma. At that time he already had Alïa and his strength was not to leave his daughter without a mother.
In the Podcast that you can find in all digital platforms such as Spotify, Amazon Music or Apple, for example, Adamari also spoke of loneliness, of her daily struggle to stay healthy, not to indulge in junk food or soft drinks, her decision to separate and her happiness living with herself, enjoying her bond with her daughter Alaïa.
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