On her channel, this Galician based on the island alternates crochet tutorials with videos in which she speaks “openly and honestly” about the disease she was diagnosed with at the end of 2018, at the age of 32
“While you count points you don’t count problems.” That’s the motto of ‘Ibiza” Crazy Crochet’the channel of Youtube in which Tamara Vicente Rodriguez alternate tutorials to learn how to do needle with videos in which she speaks “sincerely and openly” about breast cancer, the disease she was diagnosed with at the end of 2018.
In the midst of a pandemic, in May 2020, this Galician woman who has lived in Ibiza since 2012 decided to become a YouTuber “as a hobby”. Her initial idea was to pass on her knowledge of crochet and turn her channel into a letter of introduction to get a job teaching this technique to knit items that learned as a child and resumed when her six-year-old daughter Akane was born.
A few months later he decided to expand the theme of ‘Ibiza’s Crazy Crochet’. In addition to explaining how to master what some call “the new yoga or the new therapy”began to talk about breast cancer, an issue that, as she herself underlines on her channel, “a priori has nothing to do with it.”
It was from September 15, 2020, when he published a video in which he recounted in detail his personal experience with the “triple negative breast cancer with mutated BRCA2 gene“. It is one of the videos on his channel with the most views, 15,443 until this Monday. “Many women began to write to me asking me questions and I realized that there is a lot of information missing on this subject. We know the word cancer, but we don’t know what it implies, what the treatment entails or how it changes your life. Nobody talks about it, that’s why I decided to do it myself, “she explains.
As detailed on his channel, which has 1,160 subscribersTamara was diagnosed with the disease when she was 32 years.
With a “very positive” character and with two children, Akane, and a baby who was then five months old, Aaron, she decided to “make lemonade with the lemons” that life had given her. With 35 years and seven operations behind her, the last one a little over fifteen days ago, “a lipofilling”, she continues to maintain that character that has earned her the affectionate nickname of Limón. “She calls me that as a friend, who says I’m stronger than that fruit,” this Galician from La Guardia humorously recounts, resorting to crochet and her facet of youtuber “as therapy”. “Doing something creative requires being aware of that process and that makes you forget about your problems. I make these videos for that, to distract myself, and, of course, to try to help,” she says.
In addition to talking about the chain stitch or the half stitch, how ball labels are read or how to crochet a chest, on her channel, Tamara addresses topics such as mastectomy or the chemotherapy side effects or explains what to eat during this treatment or what a tumor marker clip is. He even has a video in which he “thanks cancer.”
This disease, she assures, “has helped her grow as a person and as a mother” and has allowed her to realize that “health should not be taken for granted” and what is really important in life, in her case, and especially her two children and her husband, Melqui, “who has been a great support.”
In the channel you can learn how to chain stitch or learn about the side effects of chemotherapy
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Since ‘Ibiza’s Crazy Crochet’ is running, many people have contacted the Galician youtuber, especially women with her illness from Spain and Latin America, and even “a man with breast cancer who has the same mutated gene” as her.
Given the interest generated by information on this disease, Tamara has decided that very soon she will open an exclusive channel for this subject, which she has already named ‘Tamara’s lemons’.