05/30/2021 10:30
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/30/2021 10:35 AM
Senator Esteban Bullrich recounted in an interview the difficult process he went through to assimilate that he suffers from
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
and highlighted the emotion generated by the call of Vice President Cristina Kirchner.
He also compared the situation in the country with his health picture and spoke about the management of Alberto Fernández.
"She called
me
.
I got excited talking to her.
We
talked about
faith, how important faith is to grow at all times," he said in a dialogue with CNN en Español.
The senator said that he learned from another ALS patient to enjoy the things that were generated since he made his situation public since "people now say things that they did not say before."
And then, after telling her about her communication with the vice, she added: "Well, that's a case too,
Cristina's
."
In April, the legislator of Together for Change and former Buenos Aires Minister of Education confirmed that he suffers from ALS,
a progressive disease that has no cure
, and the vice president sent him a message through his social networks.
"I have just read the letter published by National Senator Esteban Bullrich. I am sure that his deep and sincere faith in God will give him the necessary strength to face this difficult situation," said the head of the Senate.
Now, Bullrich gave details of the call that the vice made him to learn about his state of health.
Cristina Fernández Kirchner called Senator Esteban Bullrich to find out about his health.
Photo Juan Manuel Foglia
Bullrich said that he realized that something was happening to him during a Zoom with "the old cabinet" of Mauricio Macri in the City
, a phrase
he said during that talk
"skidded"
.
That got worse and the senator is currently having difficulties communicating, so he must use an application made by the Argentine, Mateo Salvatto, called "Háblalo", which he uses -for example- to do homework with his 6-year-old daughter. years.
"When you find out that you are sick with a disease like ALS, you
go through stages,
" he said.
Then he indicated that the first instance was that of "anguish, a lot."
"What am I missing? That I will not be able to enter the Church, for example. That is the first reaction," he said.
The
"anger"
was another of the reactions that the senator went through, but he remarked that "it cost him more than the anguish."
And he sentenced: "I could not find the return. Now I am at peace."
On April 28, the senator reported that he suffers from ALS and that was the reason why he began with speech disorders in recent months.
In a statement, the opposition leader confirmed the diagnosis and affirmed that although it is a "complex disease" it will
continue to fulfill its functions
since it has "a commitment to Buenos Aires and Argentines."
"It is difficult to transmit painful news, but sharing it is relieving. After several months consulting doctors and doing all the necessary studies, we finally came up with a definitive diagnosis about my condition. I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a disease that causes muscle paralysis and which is what affects my speech, "he explained.
"I said one thing in the letter and that is that this disease does not define me,
what defines me is how I carry the disease forward
," he said during the report with the María O'Donnell and Ernesto Tenembaum program.
Finally, he drew a parallel between the disease and its treatment with the current political situation.
"Our problem is that as with ALS, it is difficult for us to understand that we must humble ourselves, to understand that leaving the country is like a job. It is like a speech therapist, it is like an occupational therapist, like a neurologist, like a kinesiologist.
And it is a job, it is not magic, it is not a miracle,
"he said.
At the same time, he concluded with a self-criticism of the Cambiemos management, assuring that it was difficult for them to ask for help and that something similar is happening now to Alberto Fernández.
"
I believed in Alberto
, I did not vote for him, but I believed in him. I believed that he could change, that he could improve, that he could have a frank, constructive dialogue with the opposition. I think it was an issue, obviously the pandemic, but of his own inability to overcome the limits that the same coalition placed on him. He could not beat that inability because he did not ask for help, "said Bullrich.
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