The well-known model and television presenter Sandra Ibarra presented her book "The Accounts of Happiness" this past Friday in Tías, a "physical, emotional and spiritual journey through cancer", a disease that she has had to "live". And precisely Ibarra insisted a lot that cancer is not "suffered", it is "lived", in an interview on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero, where she assured that "there is an effort to say that there is life after cancer, but there is also life during adversity."
Sandra Ibarra assured that when people have to live through "something bad", they have people around them who "always tell them not to worry, that it will pass because it is a parenthesis". But for her, parentheses "are also life". "If I hadn't thought about it that way, my life would have been a giant parenthesis", insisted this woman, who has had to "live" this disease twice.
Therefore, Ibarra considered that you don't have to wait to start living. "You can be the protagonist of your life or a victim of the disease. Let's choose to be protagonists. When one has cancer is when one feels most alive, because you realize what you have and also what you can lose", she indicated.
In addition to the presentation of this book, Ibarra also took advantage of her trip to Lanzarote to sign a collaboration with Afol. "I have known Carmen Arrocha (president of Afol) for years and we wanted to consolidate this collaboration. What better way than to learn about the needs of patients in Lanzarote and the shortcomings with this association in order to turn them into an object of financing," she defended.
A march called "Together for Life"
In this way, Afol and the Sandra Ibarra Foundation reached an agreement to celebrate the march "Together for Life", which will take place on September 21. With the money from the registrations and the funds from the sponsors, a psycho-oncological aid program in Lanzarote can be financed.
But, in addition, Ibarra's objective goes further. "Next year we want to include the race in the Ironman calendar so that the ironmen are also in solidarity and can participate in the march. We will be able to raise more funds to finance more projects," she defended.
Ibarra, whose partner is the journalist Juan Ramón Lucas, also praised the island of Lanzarote, where she has gone "on public and also private occasions". "In some corner of Papagayo you can find Juan Ramón and me. We really like the island and we have always been happy here. It is a disconnection because of the sea, the landscape, the white houses and the towns. I love it," she acknowledged.
