His latest video already foreshadowed the worst for his followers. “Here I am, fighting like a champion,” she said without losing her unmistakable smile.. However, despite the strength that she wanted to convey, she was in the hospital receiving palliative care.
The mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Jose Manuel Bermudezwas the first to announce Hilda’s death, with a message on his personal Facebook account:
“Another sad news. Hilda Siverio, a tireless fighter, an example of life in the face of adversity leaves us today.
A joy that goes out in our day to day, but that I want to remain in the collective memory.”
With this emotional message, the chicharrero alderman wanted to honor his friend.
In everyone’s heart
Hilda Siverio García has passed away after a long battle against the breast cancer that was diagnosed in 2014. The woman from Tenerife reached the hearts of thousands of people around the world because always put a smile on the disease and taught many to motivate themselves despite the adversity and pain of suffering from a disease of this type. not hilda suffered a breast cancer type, but the most aggressive subtype that exists and that, to date, has no cure: metastatic triple negative.
Thus, despite her struggle, the disease has ended up taking this woman whose smile no one will forget; A true example of passion for life, of love for her family and for anyone who came up to her to talk or write to her. She always found a word, a song or her eternal smile to comfort and comfort all of us who looked out her window on social networks.
In their social networks she always used the hashtag “#Unpoquitomás” or #quebonitaeslavida because Hilda always chose to smile to drag and help thousands of people during their trance due to the disease.
Hilda Siverio was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014 when she was pregnant, she did not want to abort and that accelerated the entire process of struggle that has led her to its sad end. With seven operations derived from the cancer that she suffered and involved in studies for her type of genetic cancer, she not only showed her smile to her life. She was a tireless fighter to demand that governments maintain priority budget items for research, not just research on the cancer that afflicted her, investment to study any disease that has not been eradicated or that continues to cause deaths due to lack of resources to control it.
Hilda Siverio, in one of her many lawsuits against public administrations, stated: “It makes me panic how normally we assume the death of people from diseases. More than 40 years ago, people died from chicken pox, measles, diseases already eradicated, and thanks to research, vaccines were created that today save lives. I dream of that happening with cancer and it has to happen, but they are not being using the necessary means”.
Hilda Siverio was not only a fighter against cancer, she also had to accept the premature death of her brother and adviser to Club Deportivo Tenerife, Ricardo Siverio, who shot himself in 2013, or the prosecution of her father, Jacinto Siverio , for a crime of homicide and possession of firearms when he tried to repel with a revolver the violent assault he suffered at his home in Arafo at the hands of two assailants, accidentally causing the death of one of them in 2015.
A harsh prognosis
Metastatic triple-negative breast cancer differs from other types in that it grows and spreads faster, has extremely limited treatment options, and has a worse prognosis.
Their treatment is decided jointly by a multidisciplinary team made up of many professionals with the aim of increasing survival and trying to offer a good quality of life to the patient.
In addition to chemotherapy for certain cases of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, there are now some innovative treatments with good results.
Hilda Sivero wrote the following lines:
Letter to my cancer:
“You came into my life like a cyclone, you tried to erase all the good things in it, you came to fill me with pain, so that my time stopped and became slow and at the same time a sigh, you came to fill my space with tears, with pain, how wrong you were with me, you came like a breeze, in the form of a storm, gray and dark to turn off my days of Light.
You came wanting to fill my mind with fears and snatch my smile, you taught me with a big slap how hard life is, you taught me that my passage on this journey called life had no arrival date. What’s more, you didn’t even give me time to find out that he was on a trip. You came and you have taught me so much, that I already know. That I don’t care, perhaps because I learned that life is no longer deadlines, cycles, or spaces, they are unique and unrepeatable moments. And I shout to you that I thank you for teaching me that this is the only reality of life. That here no one is eternal, that the only sure thing is that you are born to die and I have taught you how I wanted to live with you.
My humor turns off your strength, the courage to get up stomping to remind you that I still see life so beautiful. I know that the more I laugh, the weaker you are for me. The more I live each day, the more you die in me. You taught me that the owner of my body is me and it’s so nice to see life like this…
You send me pain and I will continue giving you smiles. I have given you something you did not expect and it is not to fight against you, but to thank you for this daily miracle. I have lived so beautifully: love and be reciprocated. Hopefully the memory of my smile will not be forgotten…”
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The influencer never lost her strength and this is how she transmitted it to her followers. Converted into an icon in the fight against cancer, she never lost heart and His videos went viral due to the naturalness with which he spoke about his illness. He became a role model for many people suffering from cancer.
His story
Hilda Siverio was born in Tenerife in 1971. When she was pregnant with her third child, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Last year, her disease progressed and her cancer mutated into a nodal and bone metastases with an unfavorable prognosis.
Even so, he always kept showing his eternal smile. ‘Get a smile out of cancer’. This was his motto, as his Facebook account reads. A smile that he never lost and with which he decided to face her illness and learn to live with it.
