This Saturday, June 29, 2024, Ophélie Meunier met the viewers of the six for the last number of the season of “La grande week”. The opportunity for the presenter to give the floor to Olivier Goy, a former entrepreneur suffering from Charcot’s disease. After endless medical wandering, it was in 2020 that the diagnosis was made.
As a reminder, this is a neurodegenerative pathology that causes progressive paralysis of the patient until death. There is currently no curative treatment to treat it despite advances in research. Unable to speak anymore, the father in a wheelchair was nevertheless able to speak on air thanks to artificial intelligence and his tablet.
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“I was a healthy patient”
Surrounded by her columnists and the actor Pierre Niney who was also invited, Ophélie Meunier listened attentively to her journey. “I was a healthy patient. Four months before the diagnosis, I was still doing 50-kilometer bike rides, but I couldn’t hold a tennis racket,” explained the man who decided to tell his story through the film called “Invincible Summer”.
Upon learning that he only had several months to live, Olivier Goy held on, supported by his loved ones and a psychologist. With his foundation, the principal concerned wishes to increase media coverage and raise public awareness on the issue. His strength of character and his philosophy of life naturally hit the mark on the set of “La Grande Semaine”.
Ophélie Meunier overwhelmed by her poignant testimony
“Do you have a message for us, who constantly complain about tiny things?! (…)”Ophélie Meunier then asked him. To which Olivier Goy replied: “Try to get rid of small problems by putting things into perspective and you will see the lightness and fullness that you will gain.”
“My last question, what is your best memory of your life Olivier?”added Ophélie Meunier. “Waking up this morning…One more day”Olivier Goy stressed to the applause and the moved gaze of his interlocutor and his team. It was difficult for the host to contain her tears following her tirade. Puremédias.com invites you to watch the sequence again in the video above.
