“I tell you everything, she writes on Instagram from the hospital. Following my second delivery in 2014, the doctors discovered an abnormal growth in my pelvis… The announcement of the presence of a ‘tumor’ the next day of my delivery worried me enormously… Weeks of doubts followed, while waiting for the result of the biopsy carried out a few days following the delivery…”
And to add the verdict: “hormone-dependent desmoid tumour…We avoided the worst because it is a benign tumour, but given the location, it is impossible to remove it without causing damage around…”
She’s been living with this “ping pong ball” for 8 years
“So since then, I’ve been living with it, I’m lucky not to feel any pain, to have no treatment,” says Clémence Castel, recently separated from Mathieu Johann (father of her children) to live with a woman. “An annual follow-up is still necessary to ensure that it does not develop. The evolution of this lump depends on hormones, which excludes any use of hormonal contraception. On this point, with regard to my life as a couple It doesn’t bother me that much!Another consequence, I’m really advised not to carry another child because a new pregnancy might cause the size of this lump to flare up (which is now approaching the size of a ball of ping-pong)… Today I look at peace in relation to all this. I am aware of how lucky I am not to be ill, not to have heavy and tiring treatment. think often and send all my courage to people who are not so lucky.”
The “chance to have been able to have two children”
“I am also aware of how lucky I am to have had two children before this tumor occurred”, concludes the adventurer who confides more and more in his private life. “They are in great shape and are enjoying life to the fullest! And overall, having a tendency to see the glass rather half full than half empty, I say thank you to life for having preserved me from the worst… I However, I have this Damocles sword above my head like a reminder shot that allows me to remember to enjoy every moment spent with those I love!
