Encarna Manso, 42, had simply stated goodbye to her “chemo” classmates at a hospital in Algeciras. This Monday, the identical day as her birthday, she completed after 7 months, the primary cycle of chemotherapy after being recognized with breast most cancers. She promised them that she would ring ‘the Bell of Dreams’ situated on the bottom ground so loud that they’d hear her from the primary ground. What she didn’t know, nor did she count on, is that they’d not solely hear the bell, but additionally applause and the music of the Woman of a Thousand Battles, by Manuel Carrasco, carried out by a younger musician.
“I went straight right down to ring the bell however the lady on the reception known as me and I used to be shocked”, she tells NIUS Manso. At that second, she was along with her associate and her two-year-old daughter, whom she took in her arms and approached those that have been ready for her. “All my individuals have been there, my mom, my brothers, mates… she was thrilling.” Her household had come from El Almarchal, a district of Tarifa the place Manso is from, and she or he was additionally shocked by mates from Seville and different cities.
There was her mom, leaning on crutches and giving her a bouquet of flowers. Tears have been inevitable at such a particular second. One extra step, within the lifetime of a warrior, as she and people who know her outline herself. This Civil Guard agent stationed in Algeciras, she obtained the prognosis in May 2022. “When they instructed me, I could not consider it, I assumed it was a lie, like a foul dream,” she recounts.
His motto: “Live, nothing is inconceivable with a smile”
The true dream of her life had all the time been to be a mom. In her earlier vacation spot, she met her associate and, lastly, that they had made it. “When I bought it, after I had my child lady, they instructed me this,” she remembers. She first had anemia, she felt very drained, after which a lump in her chest. With her household historical past, she misplaced her father to a different most cancers, alarm bells went off.
“The prognosis was a break in my life, I stated: my God, I’m dying,” she says excitedly. However, towards all odds it has extra vitality than ever. The abstract of her story says that it’s: “Live, nothing is inconceivable with a smile.” And that is simply what they bought from her the day she rang the bell… a giant smile that reminds her that her steps are essential to these round her. “I’ve no phrases to thank them for such a wonderful gesture, it was a rush of pleasure,” she confesses.
There Manso will proceed, ready for the subsequent step, the surgical intervention with an unwavering perspective. “We girls do not must really feel ugly as a result of we’re bald,” says she, who goes about her day after day with out a hat or scarf, on the lookout for normality in a illness that turned her life the other way up and that she is placing it proper with happiness.