The singer Don Omar He revealed this Monday through social networks that he had been diagnosed with cancer. Just one day later, the singer of hits like ‘Salió el sol’, ‘Danza Kuduro’ and ‘Angelito’ published a new message in which he announced that “today I woke up cancer-free and grateful. My operation was a complete success and Now I have to recover.”
Raul de Molina had the opportunity to speak with the Puerto Rican artist, who is recovering from the operation in an Orlando hospital, and this Tuesday he revealed details from his program The fat and the skinny (Univision) about his surgery and the cancer that was detected.
“Yesterday I was very happy around 6:15 in the afternoon when I first received a text and 2 minutes later a call, it was Don Omar to tell me that his operation had come out well, an operation that took 4 hours and that now “He felt good. He still felt it when he talked a little about the effects of the anesthesia, but the joy I received was very great because he told me ‘they have already taken away my cancer,'” the Cuban presenter began by sharing.
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De Molina announced that the cancer that Don Omar had was kidney cancer, the same one that he was diagnosed with almost two decades ago and for which he was successfully operated on.
“He told me a minute ago that they removed his left kidney and they removed my right kidney, so from here on the sister program I send you my best wishes,” said the host. “In 2 weeks you will be perfect, in 4 weeks you will be even better, so I imagine that we will have Don Omar on stage very soon with his tour.”
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The TelevisaUnivision talent acknowledged that when he received the diagnosis 19 years ago “he was very afraid” at first because of the uncertainty of not knowing what it would be like to live with only one kidney. “Later I found out that you can live with one kidney just as if you had 2 kidneys because many people donate a kidney to someone they know,” he said. “I have a friend who donated his kidney around the age of 50 to his mother and was left with only one kidney and I always remember an old man who lived in my building who was exercising and was 90 years old and had only one. kidney”.
“Now we have something in common, we have only one kidney, and it’s good that everything turned out well,” added the co-host of The fat and the skinnywho has more than a million and a half followers on Instagram.
