00:00We, as we welcome, welcome back, Alessandro Di Battista.
00:07Good evening Giovanni and good evening to all viewers.
00:10Welcome back, so how are you?
00:12Pretty good, come on, some days better than others, but today I also went to the seaside to eat,
00:18a nice fry-up, so every day I take back some space of freedom.
00:22Can you tell us how it went, what happened? So you were in Cuba.
00:25But I went to do some reporting for the Fatto Quotidiano for TV Loft,
00:30essentially to tell, to investigate and then tell the situation in Cuba
00:33and I started to feel sick mainly due to a cerebral edema
00:39due to the presence of a tumor that was found in me in Cuba,
00:43They immediately gave me the right tests, they immediately identified the disease,
00:50They immediately got the treatments right which reduced the swelling allowing me to have the operation.
00:54They removed almost all of the tumor and now I'll undergo treatment hoping it works.
01:00By now, Giovanni, I am part of that rather large club, among other things of Italian citizens,
01:05not only that, but why me.
01:08But if there is a merit to this plague, this plague of the 21st century,
01:13it's just that it's a democratic disease and it affects everyone.
01:17I'm not one of those who says I'll make it because I'll fight,
01:20actually, I don't even like the rhetoric of the warrior strength, don't give up, that much.
01:25What do I have to do?
01:26I have to undergo treatment, I have to lead the healthiest life possible,
01:30I have to have a positive attitude, but this has always been part of my character.
01:34But those who must not give up are the doctors, more than me Giovanni,
01:38but they won't give up.
01:39I'm being followed very well, frankly.
01:42We are also sure that you will always remain as positive as you have always been.
01:47Listen, let's talk about the hospital in Cuba, it was a facility adequate for the gravity of the situation.
01:52They performed a very sophisticated operation on me in Cuba, the neurosurgeon Marlon Ortiz operated on me,
01:59cold blood, they operated on me with technologies that were used here 30 years ago,
02:04and yet this neurosurgeon saved my life.
02:07Yesterday this neurosurgeon wrote to me saying that they don't have the possibility to sterilize
02:11the instruments for the operating room due to the lack of electricity,
02:15and in Gemelli they told me that they performed a very refined operation on me.
