"I am optimistic".
Moshe Shalonsky (Photo: Reuven Castro)
The journalist, media person and former commander of the Gali IDF, 74-year-old Moshe Shalonsky, revealed that he was diagnosed with stage three esophageal cancer.
"I have something personal to tell you, in the summer I got cancer," he said yesterday (Friday) on his program "Thoughts Ltd" on the IDF airwaves.
"Yehuda Amichai wrote: 'All summer, flowers struggled to bloom / in the patient soil and gained strength.' We'll send you for an endoscopy. It's a routine thing, they do it all the time. I arrived at Mashgav Ladach hospital with my wife Dalia, because it's anesthesia treatment, meet nurses, talk, joy, radio, TV, what's going on, politics. The test begins, they put me to sleep , I wake up and the room is empty. There is no one. I say to myself, 'Something is wrong here.' photograph, and says, 'If you have older children at home, let them advise you.'' We burst out laughing,
And they say, 'We have grown children, not at home, and we advise them and help them, and that's fine.'
And now, what do we do with this thing?
We leave and walk towards the car.
End of October, chill of a Jerusalem evening.
Quiet.
We get into the car, and the first thing is how to inform the children."
Shalonsky said that he was then sent for a CT scan, after which he was informed that "probably there are no metastases. This makes me quite happy. In the morning, they inform me, it's true, you have cancer, there are no metastases, but it's stage three. I've always lived with the feeling that a major in the reserves is a rank The highest rank I've received, so no, stage three cancer is probably the highest rank I've received. I intend to fight, I intend to win, and along the way I intend to connect you with a few episodes of what I've been through recently, like how everyone tells me they have the best doctor Well, come on, how everyone explains to me that they have a friend who had it and he went through it. So we are preparing for war and like I said, I intend to win."
His presenting partner, Efrat Shapira Rosenberg, asked Shalonsky why he chose to share his illness with the listeners.
"It was very difficult for me. ALF, I thought it was good for me, it gives me the feeling that I control my environment and control things.
And that's how I feel.
I have cancer but I feel well.
I feel relatively fine.
Training.
fighting to eat
I also think that this is true for many people who are debating, and for whom cancer is the Gospel of Job.
So this is the Gospel of Job, but you have to live with it, you have to be optimistic.
I don't know where it's going, but I'm optimistic."
Shapira Rosenberg asked Shalonsky if he finds good things in his situation.
"It's the first time after 50-60 years that I don't shave every morning. And I've been shaving since the Yom Kippur War, every morning. I would shave even when there was no water and the soldiers were always laughing. Secondly, you don't owe anyone anything. You don't have to go For weddings, you don't have to go to events, you don't have to go to dinners, and you also don't have to invite anyone to your house, even though everyone jumps in and wants to come. Because I don't feel anything. My wife says that even before cancer I would have said these things, but you feel Great, you're suddenly a free person. You have cancer but you're a free person."
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