MIAMI.- A month after revealing that he suffered cancer, the singer Don Omar He recalls how he dealt with the symptoms of the disease; ailments that he initially thought were due to physical exhaustion caused by his tour Back To Reggaeton, the first in almost a decade.
Through an interview I gave to People in SpanishThe singer confessed that it all began in April, when he performed in Las Vegas. “I was feeling very sick, I had a high fever, a lot of body aches and I felt that something was not right,” he said.
Although she initially ignored the symptoms, alarm bells went off when her body began to expel blood.
“I started to have internal bleeding that was reflected in my urine. I was super scared for two or three weeks. (…) I started to self-medicate. (…) I had just done a lot of physical activity, I have a two-hour show on stage and it takes effort; you sweat a lot. I thought I was dehydrated, unfortunately not,” he recalled.
May 2 was crucial, as he showed up at Hard Rock Stadium for Formula One, but the temperature that afternoon caused him a shutdown.
Although he hid his discomfort, the team noticed his change.
The illness
The producer said that most of the doctors who were aware of his case were Hispanic. They all expressed their concern because his symptoms were aggressive.
“Every time one of them found out it was me, their face was like Wow, he’s going to die; wow, Don Omar has cancer,” he says.
The singer was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma. Although he initially wanted to keep his fight private, on June 17, one day before undergoing a laparoscopy to remove his left kidney, where the tumor was located, Don Omar revealed his condition on social media.
The next day, he confirmed that the tumor had already disappeared.
“What I am most grateful for today is being alive,” he said.
According to her doctor, the bleeding in her urine was key to finding the tumor in time. “That’s the moment when fear begins to turn into confidence.”
Today, she says that this transition has helped her strengthen her faith. “We stopped seeing it as clinical and started seeing it as the act of a miracle, which is what it was for me. We took what was happening as an emergency warning, a warning from ‘Someone’ who loves me very much,” she told People, pointing to the sky.