Giancarlo Magalli is back on TV after months of absence, guest of Silvia Toffanin on Verissimo.

Lost 24 kilos, he bears the signs of his tough fight against lymphoma , from which he "recovered" and is "recovering little by little".

«It all started less than a year ago – he said -, I felt pain when I went to bed at night and I went for tests. The doctors saw something that didn't convince them very much and, when we had further tests planned, I suddenly caught an infection, even quite serious ».

Fever at 40 and "delirium", said the historic Rai conductor to Silvia Toffanin. One of the daughters was at home and called the ambulance: «So I was taken to the hospital, they treated me for the infection. I was having visions and, perhaps under the influence of drugs, doing things I shouldn't have done. One evening I tore off the catheters I was wearing, I heard the doctors say they should have tied me to the bed ».

At that point, Magalli continued, "the first of the good things happened in this affair, my families (Magalli has two marriages behind him, ed) mobilized and took turns watching over me all night" .

Once the infection had passed, subsequent tests revealed that Magalli had lymphoma around the spleen : «It's a tumor – he specified in the Canale 5 lounge – but one that can be treated. They told me right away that it would take a few months but that it was curable, and in fact now I'm cured, I don't have it anymore". In reality, "they told my daughters: ' If you take care of yourself, you'll get well, if you don't take care of yourself, you'll die in two months ', they were terrified, but they didn't tell me, they just looked after me with greater affection and attention".

It took "seven months between hospitalizations at home and away from home, physiotherapy, people who had to stay close to me for injections and pills, it wasn't easy".

He's fine now: « I've resumed my normal activities. I'm doing light therapy, a trim. I no longer have problems walking, eating and sleeping, I hardly take any medicines anymore ».

The colleagues? « They didn't get crowded, whoever took over my plans expected me not to get back on my feet. Friends have been close to me, other less friends have not shown up, but who cares ».

A return to Rai? «I'm waiting for them to show up, Rai is Rai, I've been working there for more than 50 years and I know it well, I know its limits. When, some time ago, I said that gratitude wasn't really Rai's strong suit, I was a little angry. But it's also quite true. The fact is that Rai is not a person, it is not a boss with whom you have a good or bad relationship. It changes all the time. You find yourself talking to different people. There are those who respect you, those who don't respect you, those who can't wait to get you to work and those who can't wait to get someone else to work ».

Finally: «I wrote to Coletta, our director, just to let him know that I was alive and well, that I was fine, in the hope that something could be reconstructed. It would suit him. All the programs that I left with the disease and that they gave to someone else went like this ».

(Unioneonline/L)

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