The writer Marion Potvin was at the Des Livres et Vous de Gourdon bookstore, invited to present her work “And afterwards, life goes on”. This heartbreaking collection simply recounts his life in a life that is not simple at all. A self-published book, printed by Coolibri.
In the prime of her life, 18 years old, her whole future ahead of her, friends, sport, outings, studies… Joy and happiness flooded her youth when a terrible announcement fell upon her. Doctors diagnosed him with a large brain tumor.
It’s a collapse, all her dreams evaporate and leave her suffocating with emotions.
Chemotherapy starts immediately, with of course the inconvenience of the treatment. Thus passes a terrible year which leaves her panting, trying to rebuild herself.
But the worst is yet to come, the chemo hasn’t worked, we need to operate as quickly as possible.
Fate definitely attacks her shamelessly, because she wakes up disabled, visually impaired and suffering from hemiparesis, her left side no longer obeys. A muscle strengthening program is offered to her, she will spend six months in rehabilitation in Montfaucon.
And as nothing was spared him, two and a half years ago, the doctors diagnosed a recurrence of his tumor and told him of a medical impasse, they no longer had a solution.
Desperate after so many vain struggles, she does not give up, she still wants to squeeze in a few more years of life.
She then met the association for research into brain tumors, ARTC, which supports research in neuro-oncology. A proposal was made to him for a last-chance treatment whose side effects can be terrible, such as total blindness.
However, Marion cannot resist helping all suffering people, through her book, and by becoming a departmental representative of the ARTC Lot.
Marion is now thirty years old, in a civil partnership, with two children, she has adapted and is still fighting tirelessly to overcome her neuronal disorder. Her book is a testimony, a lesson in life, poignant, terrible, and yet at the bottom of the tunnel lives a determined, sympathetic woman, with a dazzling smile, who would so much like to relieve those who suffer, and tell them that despite everything we can live happily. .
