The former France 2 presenter contracted Covid-19 after having been operated on for jaw cancer. He delivered himself in the columns of the Parisian on his return to Radio Classique.
Jaw cancer, Covid and the return to the air at Radio Classique after more than eight months of absence, the year 2021 and the beginning of 2022 of Guillaume Durand were not easy. The former presenter of France 2 confided in the newspaper The Parisian, this Saturday, January 8, over the last few months, which he compares to a fight “of a boxer who took a hell of a blow“. Last June, at age 69, Guillaume Durand was operated on for jaw cancer. Since then, the road to recovery has been long, but on December 21, it finally ends.”That day, after a final scan, the head of nuclear medicine shouted in the hallway: ‘There is nothing left. ‘ I wanted to kiss her“, he explained.
For the first time, the journalist then allows himself to discuss his illness, on his Twitter account, and especially his return to the radio. “I find Radio Classique at the start of the school year. The morning remains for young people“, he writes. Before his stop, Guillaume Durand led the morning, from 7:30 to 9:00, and this, since 2008.
I find Radio Classique at https://t.co/kyDMsoYXNr morning rest for young people. Thank you for science / medicine. First jogging after a hell of cancer operated for 10 hours on June 25, then chemo and radio followed by a good Covid .Take fear by the hand and live. Caution at Christmas
– Guillaume Durand (@guillaum_durand) December 24, 2021
“The Covid brought me down“
While he was in full rehabilitation, Guillaume Durand contracted the Covid-19, which the “laid flat again“.For him he “it is important that patients speak“. As a cancer and Covid patient, the journalist took a step back from the pandemic.”If my jaw surgery had been unscheduled for pandemic reasons, I wouldn’t be here today. And when I had the Covid, it was the vaccine that saved me. Without my two doses I would have died a second time“, he explained. This is why he considers that the vaccination obligation is necessary:”Piss off the unvaccinated? Macron is 10,000 times right. We should go even further with the compulsory vaccination pass for those over 50.“
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