“I’m going to heal, I’m going to heal.” Two months after the birth of her daughter, BFMTV weather reporter Virgilia Hess came on set to talk about her fight against breast cancer that she was diagnosed with during her pregnancy… From the announcement of the diagnosis to her journey of care , not to mention the birth of his daughter in the midst of this ordeal.
On December 22, while an obstetrician was examining her chest, a “small lump” was identified. The results of the breast ultrasound, obtained eleven long days after the examination, are formal: she has breast cancer.
“We hear the words but we cannot fully digest them. She was six months pregnant (…) We say to ourselves ‘you can’t at 32, it’s inconceivable’”, recalled Virgilia Hess.
“No impact” of chemotherapy on the baby
Soon enough, the young woman learns that she will have to undergo chemotherapy to treat her cancer. To her surprise, the treatment “will have no consequences on [s]we baby.”
“I even tolerated chemotherapy better when pregnant than after the birth of my daughter. I felt that I was forming a duet with my daughter, ”she confided to our antenna.
Since the birth of her first child, who “is doing very well”, Virgilia Hess has continued chemotherapy. “They work very well” because the size of the tumor has already decreased.
However, like many people with cancer, the weather reporter says she suffers the side effects of her chemotherapy for more than a week at a time. But nothing stops her from “keeping a smile,” she says.
“This positivity and this morale is 50% of the job. There are ups and downs but I will heal, I will heal,” she proclaimed.
As for his daughter, without whom his cancer might not have been diagnosed, he admitted: “She saved me, she’s my angel.”
Source: BFM TV
