The family of the seriously ill Brazilian football icon Pelé experiences sometimes sad and sometimes funny moments in the hospital.
“Sometimes it’s a lot of sadness and despair, other moments we laugh and talk about funny memories,” Pele’s daughter Kely Nascimento wrote on Instagram on Wednesday alongside a photo. “And what we learn the most is that we have to look for each other, hold on to each other. That’s the only way it’s worth it. All together.”
Pelé, the 1958, 1962 and 1970 world champion, has been in the hospital since November 29. The Israelita Albert Einstein Hospital had announced that it had been diagnosed with a progression of the cancer and that the 82-year-old needed more intensive care due to kidney and heart problems. According to media reports, the chemotherapy should not have worked recently.
There were no official diagnoses this week. Kely Nascimento had repeatedly published pictures of family members from the hospital room in the past few days.