“A nice and healthy girl suddenly became a girl who had a swollen face, started to fall out my hair, I started to decompose, I had an excess hormone in my body, which affects many other things, I was a grandmother who couldn’t even go.” admitted to Markéta Konvičková.
Its diagnosis – carcinoid – is an unknown term for most doctors and patients. “I have limited tumors in my lungs, nodes, it cannot be operated without doctors do not damage the surroundings. The only treatment is surgical, chemotherapy does not occupy,” explained the singer, who became the discovery of the year in the Czech Nightingale Mattoni poll.
“I have tablets, hormonal injections and I feel good. I’m not healthy, but I feel, and I’m grateful to get out of bed, take care of my daughter, travel…”, “ She added to the course of the disease.
The carcinoid is so rare that many doctors have no direct experience with it. “The incidence is strictly rare, I will rather refer you to surgery,” one of the internists responded. “A healthy person does not absorb what the singer Konvičková passes,” He said another doctor with reference to mocking comments that have been appearing on social networks in recent days.
“Symptoms may be fierce abdominal pain and weight loss related to increased bowel motility (diarrhea),” explained. “Of course, there is a high physical stress, muscle weakening and overall fatigue if we are talking about clinical image.
At the same time, the endocrinologist recalls that Konvičková helps with her openness more than she may be aware of. “Profession. Mrs. Markéta Konvičková is a singer, in addition to her voice, she also feeds her figurate, movement, dance. In this respect, it is also extremely important for other patients that he does not miss society and shows that this is possible to live and live with this disease. stated.
His words are also a silent criticism of those who bind to the patients because of the appearance. “Every disease is not only a duel of the human body, but also the psyche. An important factor is the family and the helpful surroundings that do not look at the sick as people excluded from public life, somehow handicapped. Mrs. Konvičková clearly wins. closed.
And he added: “You know, it is never easy to talk about the course of illnesses, it is a high -individual individual matter. I was personally pleased that it turned out in public, because I know very well what her body is going through and how difficult days and nights.”
