2024-07-23 03:01:00
A few days before the start of the Paris Olympic Games, the pole vaulter from Santa Fe German Chiaravigliowinner of the silver medal at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, revealed that he suffers from a autoimmune disease that affects kidney function.
“The Olympic Games are starting soon and I felt like writing these words…” begins the message that Chiaraviglio shared on his Instagram account to tell the story health problem that he has to go through.
“After winning my silver medal at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games and live one of the most beautiful moments of my life, One of the worst moments I have ever experienced began“, the pole vaulter said.
According to what he said, he discovered that he was suffering from a problema renal after going to the doctor and undergoing tests for a headache that was bothering him. “I started consulting and with additional studies they indicated that I had severe kidney failure”he explained.
At that moment, the athlete continued, “my world fell apart, the scenarios that were coming were uncertain, complex, and Suddenly, I went from feeling like a strong and ‘healthy’ athlete to feeling like someone with a pathology and physically weak. (and of course, from there on emotionally too). As if in a second I transformed into another person.”
The last few months, Chiaraviglio confessed in this regard, “were very hard, many medical consultations, new concepts and a new life trying to understand what was happening to me, with a thousand questions and doubts.”
Finally, after undergoing a biopsy, they confirmed that he has a autoimmune disease that affects kidney function“A new life partner, unwanted, but from now on will be part of my daily baggage,” he said.
Despite the kidney problem “I tried to keep trainingsometimes more, sometimes less”, although “It was very difficult to focus, I was very affected and I couldn’t perform as I intended”he admitted. “The only thing I was sure of was that moving was always better than not moving. Even so, it was very difficult,” the athlete added.
At the end of his message, Clairvoyant He said that “after starting a treatment with many pills, and some logical side effects that were anticipated” he is wanting to “put everything in order.”
“What will come? What will it be like? Not only from a health perspective but also from a professional perspective, “that activity that accompanied me and traversed me completely for more than 20 years,” the pole vaulter asked on Instagram, where he stated that “There are no answers yet, or there are some, but it is not the time to demand them from me.”
“It’s time to go through what I have to do and recognize myself in this new place. Like every challenge I’ve had to live through throughout my life, now is the time to face a new one,” concluded Chiaraviglio, who thanked his family and friends and recalled that This is “neither an end nor a beginning” but rather “one more chapter” in his story, which he continues to “write day by day.”