The social networks announced around 8:00 p.m. yesterday the goodbye of Hilda Siverio (Tenerife, 1971). The last chapter of a tireless fighter against cancer overflowed with endless messages of solidarity that constitute the best packaging for a woman who spread her desire to continue fighting in the worst of all possible scenarios. So much silence was not good.
The silence of the last few days did not bode well. His legion of followers – totaled more than half a million on social networks – had been dodging a farewell that came out of the blue for some time. Cold but not for that expected. “Another sad news. Hilda Siverio, a tireless fighter, an example of life in the face of adversity, leaves us today.” That was how she opened her brief message Jose Manuel Bermudezmayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerifeon Facebook around 8:00 p.m.: Hilda Siverio (Tenerife, 1971) was no longer with us.
“Another fighter is leaving and that increases the anguish of those who are waiting for a cure”
The same social networks that she appeared with a smile from ear to ear –Tik Tok, Instagram, #DiariodeHilda– lamented the end of a heroic battle. An exhibition many times discussed, but which Hilda freely chose to recount her long battle against cancer, The disease that she was diagnosed with when she was pregnant with her third child: two girls and a boy is the legacy of a being who knew how to capture thousands of hearts. “I opened WhatsApp, looked for Hilda and sent her some hearts,” Jessica naturally abbreviates, also affected by breast cancer, before finding those grams of complicity that Hilda had with people who know how hard it is to deal with a such an overwhelming verdict. «When she received hers (the little hearts) she breathed; she reassured me », this ally affects. .
Surely Hilda never imagined that she was going to enter such an agonizing spiral, but as soon as the doctors began to talk about a mutation with the development of a “difficult prognosis” lymph node metastasis, the patient plucked up her courage and told the world what she felt. She talked, danced and, above all, laughed. Hilda Siverio opted to make visible a problem that went viral due to its simplicity. “Her crazy things of hers relieved many people, with and without cancer,” Jessica says hours before undergoing one of those sessions that leave you “pressed.” Her hypnotic optimism found no insurmountable walls and she[y las personas que pelearon a su lado]I knew it. She was clear that her #DiariodeHilda did more good than harm and that everything was little to keep her spirits up in the face of adversity.
Her tenacity to cling to life made her an icon that, like everyone else, hides those people who do not stop in their attempt to search five feet to a cat.either. And it is that on more than one occasion it was spread by mistake, or perhaps because of wanting to be the first to give a scoop even if it was disastrous, that Hilda had already died. That is why every time her departure was announced in the wrong way, hers awaited the reassuring reply from her eldest daughter in which, more or less, she came to clarify that her mother was sick but alive. Those words did not arrive last night because the road had already been traveled. So much accumulated silence was not a good sign, but in the midst of that secrecy an atrocious outcome was written, just as abominable as the one that took the young woman ahead Elena Huelva (Seville, 2002), the influencer who, like Hilda Siverio, one day set out to face cancer with a smile and without rest.
There are reactions to this death to stop a car, but in the last hours of yesterday we contacted Carmen Bonfante, president of the Tenerife Breast Cancer Association, to press the heartbeat caused by the departure of Hilda Siverio. “It is horrifying news that puts the hearts of those who have suffered from this disease into a fist,” she advanced without neglecting the message that the deceased sent for years.
“She chose the path of exposing her case to the end and that generates conflicting positions, but she was always sure of her actions and managed to get a lot of women infected with her enthusiasm to move forward.” Finally, Bonfante stressed that this is a battle in which one feels very lonely because progress is slow, but “another fighter is leaving, increasing the anguish of those who are waiting for a cure: do not abandon us, we need research.”
“It gave us a lot of peace”
People who knew Hilda Siverio’s drama up close are clear about it. “She had a magnet, she was a being that concentrated very good vibrations around her,” Jessica confesses about a woman who often became the focus of attention for patients who met her in a hospital corridor. “She gave us a lot of peace and, above all, she knew if you needed to receive a hug,” she highlights on the good background that the Tenerife woman exuded. Some of her relatives say that the last two weeks have been “complicated” but, in turn, they want to highlight “everything she gave us” when the disease was unleashed. Her “blessed nonsense” is another of the facets that they tirelessly emphasize to defend the courage with which Hilda spoke about what was happening to her and how a diagnosis that last night confirmed the worst prognoses was evolving. “Thank you for so much struggle,” she repeats. | JD
