The Extremaduran Loida Zabala, European Paralympic weightlifting champion in 2022shared with his followers on social networks his current state of health, damaged by lung cancer diagnosed in October 2023: “I would rather die than take corticosteroids.”
“I am sharing with you the health I have at the moment. According to the CT of the Thorax-Abdomen-Pelvis, I am improving, I continue to be cancer free in all organs except the lungs, and the nodule in the LM where I still have 4 mm and parallel to the LII it has decreased from 12 mm to 9 mm,” explained the athlete from Cáceres in a publication uploaded to his social networks.
Zabala added that, “however, my brain is still worse.”
“The brain MRI determines that the right frontal metastasis has not grown and remains the same, but the left frontal metastasis has almost tripled in size (25x22x22) compared to what it was three months ago (10x9x9),” he detailed.
In this sense, the woman from Extremadura stated that her oncologist “Maru told me that the best thing I could do was to take corticosteroids and I told him that I would rather die than take them because of the two months I took it last year, stopped being independent.” “.
Also, he announced that in a month they will repeat the MRI and that’s when they “have to make a decision on how to treat it.”
“Currently I cannot speak normally and I also regret my decision,” concluded the Paralympic athlete.
Loida Zabala (Losar de la Vera, 1987) This is the great reference of Spanish Paralympic weightlifting.
From tokyo 2020, The path of the woman from Extremadura has not been easy, especially in October 2023 she announced through her social networks that nine masses were found in her brain which later confirmed their origin in a metastasis originating from cancer in breast
Despite the pain and the full treatment, the 37-year-old from Extremadura competed in the Paris Games, the fifth of his career, where he achieved a creditable ninth position.
Source: La Verdad
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