Suffering from cancer of the lymphatic system, Françoise Hardy is now suffering from the consequences of the chemotherapy and radiotherapy she had to undergo.
- Each year, 23,000 new cases of cancer of the lymphatic system are diagnosed in France.
- Radiation and immunotherapy caused deafness in one ear in Françoise Hardy.
- The singer is one of several hundred people in France who cannot be vaccinated.
In March 2020, the first confinement was a shock for a large part of the population. For others, it was just an extension of everyday life. Françoise Hardy tells it in an interview with JDD. “Because of the side effects of 45 radiation treatments that went through my head and immunotherapy, I’ve been confined for three years“, explains the singer.
These treatments were administered to her to fight against cancer of the lymphatic system from which she has suffered since 2015, and against that of her pharynx, detected two years ago.In 2015, I was not aware of what was happening to me because I was quite in a comashe confided to Paris Match last March. Today, it is worse, much more concrete. Deprived of saliva for three years by 45 radiotherapy sessions, I have permanent respiratory distress, attacks of suffocation and suffocation, not to mention endless nasal bleeding..”
More caution in the face of the virus
If Françoise Hardy has already been subjected to forced confinement for several years, the virus has however had consequences on her daily life. The 77-year-old singer must be extra careful about Covid-19, because she cannot get vaccinated due to a lack of lymphocytes. These white blood cells, essential to our immune system, are necessary to guarantee the effectiveness of messenger RNA vaccines.
The health context and his state of health also have consequences on his morale: “por me, who has always been an anxious person, the pandemic has greatly increased my anxieties for the future of the world in general, that of those I love in particular“, reports the star.
A very difficult situation
When journalists from Femme Actuelle asked her how she felt, the singer replied “near the end“.”I have nothing that works normally since these therapies and my nights are worse than my daysshe confided. There’s always worse than what you’re suffering from yourself, but that’s no consolation..”
She also spoke about euthanasia, without taboo. “Affected by Charcot’s disease, my mother was very lucky that her doctor found her a hospital doctor who euthanized her with my collaboration when she could not go further in this horrible incurable disease, she says. As far as I am concerned, I would like to have this chance, but given my small notoriety, no one will want to run even more the risk of being struck off the order of doctors..”
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