- The gastroscopy she had in April was postponed to June by journalist Olatz Vázquez, as was the case with other medical appointments and surgical interventions during the state of alarm. In the gastroscopy they detected cancer, already in a state of metastasis: “If they had tried me in April, the disease wouldn’t have spread as much,” he says, to remember that the COVID-19 crisis has also left other victims.
A year and a half ago Vázquez started feeling bad, to the point of ending two times of anguish, but beyond prescribing a lot of pills, doctors did not give importance to Vázquez's pains and symptoms. Finally, he got an appointment to make a gastroscopy, but the authorities declared a state of alarm and was postponed to him at the end of June this year. According to reports in El Secreto, in Gastroscopy he was found with tumors.
From then on they have not been easy for the journalist, as being patient during the pandemic is not easy: he had to face, for example, the first session of chemotherapy. He is documenting the disease through photographs, “both to make the disease visible and to accept my body and face the situation in a different way”.
Although he now says it's up to him to keep going, he can't get out of his head that the disease progressed calmly within his body, because he was delayed by the appointment: “This crisis is leaving more victims than it has contaminated COVID-19, and that’s why I’ve decided to count.”