Gustavo Conti will be bone marrow donor for his brother Walter: “The question is save his life”

Although he is going through a good moment professionally and personally, his relationship with Ximena Capristo and proud father of Felix, Gustavo Conti He is going through a complicated stage due to a health problem that his brother Walter, 51, is going through, who has leukemia and has come back, so will need to undergo bone marrow transplantas his former Big Brother donor.

consulted by ClarionGustavo says “The picture of leukemia showed when the pandemic started, in April 2020 and since then the fight against chemotherapy has started. They reset his brain and he returned to form beautiful cells, from which he was discharged“.

“Then he started to have controls every six months and all the studies gave him good. Until then. suddenly one day he came again, very tired. He jumped on the tab to the supermarket. He was walking and he noticed that he seemed to be out of breath, ”he details about how the problem was re -declared to him.

“Walter is very healthy, he is a good athlete, he goes to the gym almost every day and never has any health problems.until it was revealed to him. He hasn’t been a professional footballer in two minutes, but he gets through all the tournaments and fights he can, ”Conti added, showing the admiration he feels for his brother and the surprise he has to go through. .

“Playing in his favor is that he’s a healthy kid. That helps him. For example, the first time he was hospitalized he was twice in intensive care. When they put all your blood values ​​at 0 after chemo, you are left without white blood cells, with very low resistance. Any bacteria that goes around there can complicate your life. He was in therapy twice and removed two, “he stressed.

“Now he has a similar sequence with a bacterium that entered his blood. Luckily they have found it and are fighting it, but Poor Walter is being pushed everywhere. He was going through a lot. He is leaving this week because his studies are going well, but everything has become complicated, ”he said with some resignation.

Waiting for the transplant

Due to the emergency of the situation, the only possible method for medication is bone marrow transplant. “I think he’ll be home in two weeks. And Less than a month later, he was hospitalized again for a bone marrow transplant with me. That was a great goal because it gave us 75% compatibility because we are children of both parents, ”Gustavo said.

“They told us that with 50% compatibility we could do the transplant. Think about it there are people waiting for the donor their whole lives and it doesn’t come“, he added excited about the possibility.

Although he admits thatNonetheless, it remains to be seen if his brain does not reject me. She will have to undergo a month’s treatment to prepare her body and everything the transplant suggests. Hope all goes well. I hope so because he has a great polenta and a lot of desire to live. ”

Asked about his feelings about being his brother’s donor, he states that “I’ve never been in a situation like this and this surprises us all, basically because Walter is very healthy. Of course when the doctors said they would check if we had compatibility, I didn’t hesitate, I didn’t even ask what that was or what they would do to me. Here it was a matter of saving my brother’s life, as anyone would“.

“I am not afraid to do it for myself, but in any case for what might happen to him. The treatment itself is dangerous, although they say that of all the transplants, the marrow transplant is the simplest, to define it in some way, ”Ximena’s wife describes.

When it comes to referring to his brother and their relationship, Gustavo said “We ate together with Walter. We were rebosteros and when what happened later, some Boca players initially sent greetings, like of Sebastián. Battaglia and they gave him a lot of strength. That did him good. talked on the phone with Martín Palermo and a few others“.

Finally the former Kuya highlights na “He also spoke to Facundo Arana, who went through the same thing. He called it to encourage her. It also has a lot to do with the emotional. They gave him batteries and he left. “

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