2024-07-25 01:16:20
The athlete wore the garment on a night marked by nominations.
The last chapter of Big Brother was marked by the first nominations among the participants, but something that did not go unnoticed was the shirt he used Peter Astorga during this process.
The player arrived at the confessional wearing a green shirt with the phrase “ALS exists”, referring to the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
According to MedicinePlus, also called ALS, it is “a disease of the nervous system that attacks nerve cells that are in the brain and spinal cord.”
For this reason, people who suffer from it begin to suffer problems in the transmission of messages from the brain and spinal cord to the voluntary muscleswhich leads to muscle problems.
This causes some patients to experience complications. walking or running, writing and even talking.
The emotional meaning behind the shirt that Pedro Astorga wore in Big Brother
What few people know is that ALS has a special meaning for Pedro, since his mother Inés Leiva passed away in October 2013 product of this disease.
Information that he talked about during his participation in The Divine Food together with Catalina Palacios, Maria Elena Dressel and Leon Murillo.
In the episode that aired in 2021, the athlete revealed the condition that the dancer suffered from, a disease that he described as “terrible.”
Although he did not want to give further details on the subject at the time, the son of documentary filmmaker Ricardo Astorga said: “I find my mother to be the most important and strongest woman in my life, But I don’t like to talk much about the subject either, so I’m not going to make many comments.”
Finally, Pedro said with a smile: “But to be clear, she is the best woman I have ever met.”