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Esperanza de vida | Lina Hinestroza & Juan Luis Giraldo | TEDxMedellin


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Cancer did not take away our lives we
taught the value of hope
at 18 he was a super net
since I was little I always wanted to be a doctor
like my dad never wanted to be a lawyer
police to no see a pilot me
astronauts only doctor
that’s why when I was in second
semester I was just studying
study doing sports and certain
way to enjoy my loneliness
I would get very little
and I was terrified of the leds myself
studied design I liked music
people the joy the party I laughed all
time
we met about a subject where
they joined all the races of the
university was called epistemology the
ethics
that knows what it is that was to claim a
prize to life
even though I did not learn anything in
epistemology ethics is the subject that
more credits brought me that I knew this
beauty
and thereafter we could not live
one without the other
I love the inexhaustible joy
of inah and lina became the
smile that I needed in my life
and we overcome many obstacles
we overcome families completely
different we overcome groups of friends
absolutely different we overcome this
age because he is older than me
4 months she meets in November the
reached in March but in those months in
those four months send me like 10 years
followed is happy we always overcome
to the American authorities that I
I do not know anyone who has achieved
enter the US legally for
legal airport without visa without passport
without ID without any document with
funds to save a courtship that
I was in danger
when and he had gone six months to
study in the usa
since he was like at that time there
there was internet there was no communication that
courtship was affected and everything was finished
a few months I found out that he was
seriously contemplating the possibility
of staying to finish his career and
do your specialization there and I do not
could I allow that to happen general
for the earth was my tranquility was my
complement was the person that I
I needed for my life because without
think about it a lot took a plane and I went
for san antonio texas when I arrived
I actually realized that there was
lost all my documents and despite
that the airline insisted
strongly that I had to go back
with them because I was going to be deported
there was the slightest possibility that
a Colombian 24 years old to enter the USA
that way I stayed because I had
that save this courtship I still
I asked how I managed to convince the
American authorities to let me
enter the only thing I tell you is that it was
much easier to convince them
to convince him
fortunately the year we were marrying
We’ve been together for 30 years now and we have
three children and a family that our
greater happiness and our greatest pride
and this is how lina has always been and
If it lasts to die where it sticks its head
The bag
he always puts his chest to things
what we did not know was that many years
after
lina was going to have to put the chest to the
life in a different way
have this news that wallis as
gynecologist had had to give
so many patients in your office already
had to give me the same August 2013
a diagnosis of breast cancer
the world came over us we could not
believe that I was part of the
statistics of one in eight women
that will contract this disease in some
moment of your life
also what is today the first cause of
death of women in the world a
illness that arrives without warning
without preferences neither the class nor the
social in the political party in the
religion comes and takes your
tranquility and also takes life
of about 35 percent of the
women diagnosed today in
Colombia
we darkened life
we are filled with fear we are filled with
anguish we spent months of many
discomforts surgeries trains effects of
the chemotherapy we spent months of
emotional difficulties a
barbarous uncertainty that would be our
lifetime
lina and will continue here with me
we spent months of great physical changes
mastectomy lina calm tub calm
lina that her long straight black hair divine
it had been one of his great prides
but we were lucky the diagnosis
it had been early we had arrived at
weather
and that gave us hope and hope
He gave us refuge and gave us tranquility and
we recover the light in our life
and for that reason fine grateful with that
second chance of life and inside
of his professional practice in
communications created a movement that
today is a foundation called mode
pink whose only purpose is through
products through walkways through
concert by lighting
buildings that are symbols of the city
and through events at the national level
generate awareness about detection
early breast cancer
because breast cancer is a
disease that can not be prevented in
most of the cases but that if
detected early and time
associated with being able to overcome it and
survive in more than 90% of cases
and Juan Luis in the medical practice
gynecologist specialist in reproduction
human created with the group of companions
to insert the cryopreservation program
of fertility after cancer is
say how the woman can freeze her
ovules and their ovarian tissue and men
they can freeze their sperm to
that after cancer treatment
can achieve the dream of being
parents
because the subject is so critical that in
us who are the kings of statistics
the most important publication in the area
of human reproduction that is a
magazine called fertility and
sterility reports that 800 thousand women
year in that single country are diagnosed
with cancer that’s the equivalent of a
city ​​the size of Cartagena full of
women diagnosed all with cancer
in a single year and in a single country and of
those 800,000 women 10 percent or
be 80,000 women are women in age
reproductive
that means all stadiums like the
act was born girodota absolutely
crammed full of 17 women
15 of 21 of 23 of 32 of 35 and 40 years old
facing the diagnosis of cancer with
the aggravating circumstance that cancer itself and its
treatments like surgery the
radiotherapy chemotherapy put in
danger and they end up with the ability to
fertility and reproductive of many of
those women there are conditions even in
that the treatment is associated with an 80
percent 8 out of 10 women enter
in menopause after that treatment
of cancer
for that reason
and because today the
treatments for cancer have advanced
in such a way that the possibility of
survive is not so high today not only
we worry about surviving cancer
we have to worry about life
after cancer and when we talk about
quality of life we have to talk
because the relevance of the
possibility of having children and forming a
family
from there that preserve fertility to
through the preservation of the ovules
and ovarian tissue in women and
of semen in men before
start treatment for
cancer is associated in that six or seven of
each of these ten people who
they would be infertile after cancer
they can have their children and train
a family
fortunately life has been very generous
and has shown us with signs that everything
what we have done has been worth it
from modules to we have had many
testimonies of women of 17 of 18 20 25
30 years that have arrived on time because
they have heard some signal that they have
received through any means of
a product of an activity testimonials
like inah for example a woman
that going out for his job he found
the milk bags in the month of October
that were dressed in pink they were
in morros there he remembered that he had in his
desk for many months the
order of your doctor to be the
I examined the mammography and I had not done it
fortunately thanks to that he remembered what
did and today is facing the
disease but also came very
time or the testimony of paula that we
it moves a lot because it was his daughter of 10
years after listening to a talk
our in his school who came where
mom and asked if he did the
self-examination and asked him if he did the
annual check-ups
I remember several months ago had
done the mammography but there was no
claimed the result was for him and for
fortune his cancer was there and he was
time these two testimonies of these
women are the symbol of many other
that luckily life gave him another
second chance to live
and christina a spectacular girl
overwhelming divine enterprising cheerful
that at 24 he had to face the
cancer diagnosis by a tumor
malignant brain
cristian had always dreamed of being
mom and had dreamed of having their children
and that’s why he preserved his fertility to
through the freezing of the ovules and
He fought intensely against his illness
unfortunately christina three years
then cancer took her
for me a gift of life to know
christina because to me as many
others inspired me from their strength
from his joy from his desire to
unfortunately I could not live
Cristina accompany your ceremony
Farewell because I was not in the city
but when I returned to the city I received
a very emotional call from his father that
with words full of feeling
he wanted to tell me he was grateful
with life because Kristina for having
kept her dream of being a mom alive
after cancer that had always been
generated joy
that in the most difficult moments of
greater anguish in moments of pain
physical thinking that he would be able to have his
children always brought him a smile to
christina keep alive the dream of being
mother after cancer gave him in his
last years life with hope and for
lina for paula and for many others
women who have arrived on time has
given life expectancy
and for us
give hope through the service to
the others allowed us to convert our
anguish our fear our sadness
in happiness and lina will always be
how is my smile
[Applause]
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