Giovanni Allevi: “I still have two years of life for statistics”

“According to statistics I have in front of them again, but I promise that I will celebrate the 95 years”, so Giovanni Allevi He talks about his fight against the disease. The composer, who was diagnosed with a myeloma three years ago, gave an interview to Corriere della Sera in which he returned to talk about his health problems.

As reported by Adnkronos, Giovanni Allevi It is still under Flebo for myeloma that has struck it, but it is not a chemotherapy: “It is a drug that makes me feel bad for 10 days, I would come out, as if I had a fever and also the pain of the bones increases. But the effect is to strengthen the bone tissue”. After three years of struggle, Allevi defines the hospital as a “second home”. “There I find courage and strength, the talent of the doctors and the great professionalism of the hospital staff”.

Today the 56 -year -old Giovanni Allevi He lives “as if there was no tomorrow”. “When I can hear that every second that is given to me it is a miracle then yes I am fully living the present”. The hardest moment in the last three years? “That of diagnosis is devastating, all certainties collapse and a deep, abysmal solitude is experienced,” he still told the Milanese newspaper. But the doctor who communicated to him the diagnosis added a phrase that Allevi still remembers today: “Diagnosis is the first step towards healing”.