Marco’s brother, after his wife revealed the disease, announces a fundraiser: “It has not been designed just to save my life, nobody can know if the operation that is attempted in these cases will be decisive”
The first words after revealing that he is sick. “It is a difficult moment for me, but it is precisely at times so that you have to reflect and above all act with lucidity”. These are the first words of Matteo Materazzi, prosecutor, son of Beppe and brother of the world champion Marco, on social networks after making known to be fighting against Sla (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the nerve cells responsible for controlling voluntary movements, ed.).
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Words anticipate the announcement of the start of a fundraiser to create personalized therapy at Columbia University in New York. “The fundraising launched by my wife has not been designed only to save my life: nobody can know if the operation that is tempted in these cases will be decisive – he writes on Instagram -. It is an initiative that we have thought because even more now we have understood how important the research for ALS can be and how much more can it be more, in the future, if we all do something concrete to support the studies that important doctors are carrying on”. And again: “A Therapy for ALS may exist, but it must still be found: funds are needed to accelerate this race against time. And everyone’s help can be fundamental: not only for me, but to fight this monster”.
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It was his wife Maura who made her husband’s disease known: “She ended up in a wheelchair, quickly losing even the use of legs. To date, not even the arms work more, it only moves their hands a little. Unfortunately the disease is advancing very quickly and has recently taken the respiratory part”.
La Gazzetta dello Sport
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