TESTIMONY – Maguelone Aribaud discovered her cancer by chance during a scaling at the dentist. A shock in the life of this saleswoman and mother of two teenagers. But from her difficult journey, she drew a story that brings hope, which she shares in Le Figaro.
It’s the kind of calamity that we think we can escape, as if misfortunes were always reserved for others. But on this day in October 2022, it fell on Maguelone Aribaud. It is written in black and white on the report of her biopsy: the Toulouse woman – then aged 48 – suffers from squamous cell carcinoma on her tongue. In other words, cancer. A real bolt from the blue in the life of this very dynamic woman, mother of two teenage girls. “If I lose my language, how will I work?”worries this outspoken salesperson, who has worked for ten years at Radio France. Two years after this devastating diagnosis, she published Foreign language (ed. BoD), a book full of hope which retraces his journey. She answered questions from Figaro.
LE FIGARO. – Can you tell us how it all started?
Maguelone ARIBAUD. – In May 2022, I noticed small white spots on the right side of my tongue, like…
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