00:00I signed a contract with Cantameba between the end of May and the beginning of June 2024.
00:11I went to my reference oculist, who treated me for an herpes,
00:18because the year before I had an herpes and I was thinking of a recidiva.
00:23Subsequently, he sent me to his colleagues because I was not responding to the therapies.
00:28I went to the pre-surgery ophthalmic course in Turin,
00:31where they tried to do an ocular tampon to see if there were bacterial infections,
00:36they did not find anything.
00:38Subsequently, I was sent to Gruseto by Professor Sarnicola,
00:43where I did an ocular scrapping,
00:45where they actually found the positiveness of the creatine from Cantameba.
00:49From that moment on, I started the treatments.
00:52The pains were very strong because it had been two weeks since I had the disease.
00:57I had an ulcer that caused me a lot of pain.
01:01I was bedridden for a long time because the anti-inflammatories, the pain killers,
01:05did not have any effect.
01:07Gradually, through the therapy, the pains decreased
01:12and I was able to resume training and my way to Paris.
01:16Despite this rare disease, with a little patience and a lot of pain support,
01:20you can do training and you can do high-level athletics.
01:26Obviously, I was followed by people who knew the disease,
01:30who constantly checked me,
01:32also because I had the problem of the swimming pool,
01:35where fungi could develop.
01:38So they were a little worried about that,
01:40but they checked me weekly to make sure it didn't happen.
01:45The alarm bell was when I came back from a race by plane.
01:49I had an eye problem that could look like a grain of sand,
01:53a redness,
01:56which I also had linked to the herpes I had the year before,
02:01because the symptoms initially seemed to be the same.
02:05The year before, the herpes had gone away through the antivirals in a short time.
02:10Instead, the antivirals had no effect on the cantameba keratitis,
02:14so none of the therapies I was doing brought a result.
02:21Then, little by little, we found the solution.
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