Cancer patient Patrice Aminati
“I almost lost my humanity during the pain”
Daniel and Parice Aminati married in April 2022.
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Patrice Aminati developed metastases in her lungs after suffering from skin cancer. Now she is talking about her cancer treatment.
Moderator Daniel Aminati (50) announced in mid-March that his wife Patrice (29) would continue to fight cancer. Metastases had formed in the lungs. At the beginning of 2023, Patrice Aminati was diagnosed with black skin cancer, and in the fall it was initially said that she was free of metastases. In an Instagram post, Patrice Aminati spoke out after the new bad news.
Regarding a series of pictures that show her visibly exhausted in the hospital and with her family, she writes: “I have received many lovely messages and well-wishes. Thank you very much. Sorry that I cannot answer immediately. I was not and am not in a position to do so today the situation.” The moderator’s wife further adds: “Those affected know that if a cancer patient doesn’t come forward, if he is quiet, if he says nothing, then it is bad. I have had a difficult time. With pain that was unimaginable for me .”
Patrice Aminati reports “horrific side effects”
She actually thought she was healthy and didn’t notice “that metastases had developed in the head and lungs.” The “(pain) problem” is not the cancer, because you can’t feel it “at my stage of the disease (yet), but the therapy, from radiation to immunotherapy,” explains the 29-year-old. “I am grateful for the new, Nobel Prize-winning therapy. Because I want to live.”
However, she was not aware of the “horrific side effects that this therapy would entail”. “There’s nothing to gloss over here. I know there are people affected who feel the same way as me – others are a little more lucky. I lost my hearing and sight because of the pain. Every possible effort was made to stabilize me. There are no words for that.” She was raised to maintain “attitude, composure and politeness,” but “I almost lost my humanity during the pain. I changed because of it.”
Once the side effects have subsided, therapy will continue. “When I say I’m grateful for it, it’s true. Because I want to live. Life has never seemed so precious to me, so worth living.” At the same time, she is scared and afraid of the infusions, “which no longer want to go into a vein. It’s as if the body, soaked in medication, is defending itself.” Patrice Aminati sends the message to all those affected and their relatives: “Stay strong, be courageous, stick together. Just like us: my Daniel, my family and above all my mom.”
Daniel and Parice Aminati met in 2018 and married civilly in April 2022. Their daughter was born in August 2022.