The writer Hannu Mäkelä became seriously ill last year.
Pictured is Hannu Mäkelä. Evening newspaper
Writer and poet Hannu Mäkelä, 81, tells The old man murmurs in his blogthat he was diagnosed with lung cancer last year. Be the first to report on it IS.
Mäkelä says in his long article that he suffered from a three-month-long illness. During the months, three major surgeries and a couple of minor operations were performed. The cancer was found quite unexpectedly.
– The strangest thing was that, on top of everything, cancer was accidentally found in my lungs, which fortunately was able to be cut out at the very last moment, says Mäkelä.
Mäkelä continues his writing by saying that he received clean papers at the beginning of December.
– When I finally got rid of it at the beginning of December and at least got a clean slate at the beginning, life started to feel worth living again. I wasn’t tired in the same way anymore, and I understood that maybe it was the cancer in the lungs that had already taken my strength in the spring and was the main cause of the fatigue; the other operations were then the result of completely different reasons. After all, they were easier to manage, even though sometimes I thought I was going to die from them, he writes.
Mäkelä has had a long career as a writer. He has created the Herra Huu character and has written a work, among other things Master. The life and death of Eino Leino.