Johan Derksen today has Inside Tuesday evening last minute canceled because of the health situation of his wife. They hear today if she has bone cancer. “I squeeze him,” he says.
It took some getting used to today Inside’s viewers: suddenly Johan Derksen was not in place on Tuesday evening in the most viewed talk show in the Netherlands. ‘Private circumstances’, Wilfred Genee called it, and that caused a lot of speculation on the internet. The one thought of the death of Johan’s dog, the other feared for his health.
Hectic day
Now it turns out that it is Isabelle Pikaar, Johan’s wife. After one day of absence, he was sitting at the table again at VI yesterday. “I had a very hectic day yesterday. I was drinking coffee with my wife. She was in pain in her back and in her leg. I say,” Then go to the doctor, “he says in the broadcast on SBS 6.
“So he goes to the doctor about 10.30 am and he says:” Just drive to the hospital and take a photo, “but he didn’t come back. At one point she calls, so I say,” Where are you? ” Then she says, “I’m in the emergency room.” I say, “Why?” She says, “I seem to have broken my hip.”
Tumor
Not by falling or bumps, Johan emphasizes. “But that just went spontaneously. Then two doctors were added and they said,” Yes, now we have a problem, because in nine out of ten cases a tumor is the cause of it. ” Well, then you get a little less cheerful, they said, “We’re not going to operate before we have investigated.”
“Then you get scans and hassle and photos and so on. I have now heard that no tumors have been found this morning. Now it is only necessary to investigate whether the bone cancer is and if that is good, then she can be operated on, but from drinking coffee to the emergency department at a time of an hour, isn’t it?”
Not in the mood
So this is the reason why Johan was not in VI. “I must honestly say that I was not in the Mood then to sit down here. (…) Then I have to drive away at half past six and then it was just big stress.”
Wilfred Genee: “I can imagine that. That is especially because they outlined a doom scenario.”
Johan: “I had never heard that you can break hip spontaneously.”
Bone cancer
Johan and his wife hear today if she may have bone cancer. “So more investigations tomorrow and then there is clarity?”, Says Wilfred.
He confirms: “Yes, and then they operate immediately and that is a piece of cake, because with a new hip you will be outside again in no time.”
Death
It shot through Johan’s head yesterday that he might have to say goodbye to his wife. “You squeeze it anyway. I was watching you at home alone at home last night and then you think: thirty years ago I already bury a woman, it won’t happen to me again, isn’t that an annoying idea.”
Table guest Wierd Duk: “Just knock, Johan.”
Wilfred: “Let’s assume that tomorrow it will work out well.”