“Since this morning Elena has been dancing and watching from her star. Thanks for everything”. A short and emotional message from her Instagram account announced the fatal outcome on Tuesday: Elena Huelva died at the age of 20, accompanied by her family circle and also by messages of affection and gratitude from followers on social networks, who joined his fight to make Ewing’s Sarcoma visible, always with the motto “My wish wins”.
Although the year started with great enthusiasm, trying to face 2023 with optimism despite the disease, the truth is that this Monday the bad news started to arrive. She herself confirmed her deteriorating state of health and a last message via Twitter left the many who supported her in her struggle very worried: “I love you”.
At only 16 years old, Spanish style he had been diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a type of cancer that forms in bones or the soft tissue around bones. The young woman has therefore decided to make her illness visible on social networks to help other people who are going through a similar moment. Four years later, the woman died.
Despite the great adversity that cancer represents in a person’s life, and even more so when diagnosed at a young age, Elena Huelva wanted to turn her situation around and told her story on social networks maintaining a firm and positive attitude. The young woman has always captivated her followers with her big smile and her resilience and she has made visible the resource problems that exist today in cancer research, and particularly Ewing’s sarcoma.
“Do not be sorry”
One of the most important messages that Elena Huelva wanted to send before her death is that people with this type of disease continue to live life and enjoy it. In your case, in various statements made in public, you have ensured that you set out to live life to the fullest “despite what is happening to me” and he had asked that no one feel sorry when they read about his illness.
In this sense, the young woman had assured that she liked to tell all the things she did outside the hospital to teach that her life does not revolve only around the disease. “My story is a hymn to life. And you have to live, and live in the present, you have to enjoy yourself,” Huelva said in a recent interview with the 20 Minutes portal.
“Life is memory”
Elena Huelva has always compared life to surfing. For her, the moments that you live every day are like waves: some will grab you well and it will be incredible to stay on them, others will “turn you over”. Even so, the young woman has always said that one must enjoy every wave and be prepared for those waves that change dramatically from day to day.
Furthermore, the Spanish woman had summed up life as a set of memories that we carry with us in which the good times of the people around us always prevail and the love we feel for the different things of daily life.
“You Can Be Afraid”
The visibility of mental health in cancer patients has been another of the fields in which Elena Huelva has always insisted. Your writer was not ashamed to show that there are times of recession and that it is not always good when a person is diagnosed with cancer. But until you have to recreate it. When she’s feeling bad, she tells herself that she’ll let me feel like this for as long as it takes, but then she’ll see life in a different color.
As for fear, the young woman has always said that it is an inevitable feeling when a person is in such a situation. and says it’s important to know what he may be feeling in order to be able to handle it better and not let fear scare him.
“My Wins Win”
Undoubtedly his most significant phrase is “my desire wins”. Elena Huelva herself said that this sentence is what she said to her parents when she was hospitalized for the first time after she was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma.
She has always been clear that her desire is winning over any adversity such as punctures, pain, physical changes, sensations she had never experienced before. “My desire wins” is also the title of the book that she Huelva published earlier this year recounting her experience. Moreover, the writer’s followers have used this same phrase on several occasions in which they wanted to show all their support and encouragement so that the Sevillian woman can overcome the disease. Which, unfortunately, did not happen.
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