Showbiz On december 14, 2017 died Marc Van Eeghem to prostate cancer. One year later, recalls his brother Kurt (66), which was not long after the death of Marc was told that he to the same illness, back in 2018. “I’m still not there.”
“It was an insane year. A year that really has hacked. My little brother died, I only fully realized at the funeral, because we seven years with him had meegestreden against the disease. I suddenly realized that he no longer is. My youngest brother. That was a shock. I stand there shaking. I can since that more or less imagine what it is to be of sorrow… your heart breaks. That can literally, according to me. I’ve spent the last year very much experienced, but it seems like everything is only yesterday happened. I can hardly imagine that he was already a year dead. I’m still not there.”
Shortly after the funeral he was told that he also to prostate cancer suffers. “With the history of our family in the back of my mind I already for a while, two times per year on control, and earlier this year, the doctor said to me that the PSA values in my blood were raised. The urologist velde the verdict: the exact same cancer as my brother, but a tad more aggressive. I thought: it is done. You will get a number of possibilities presented, and after I had discussed with Marc, his wife and a couple of other people, I do for surgery is chosen. I have knowingly covered up to melodramas in the press to avoid. Only my closest friends were aware.”
“After the surgery, I am for a few months to Lithuania pulled – I was already planning a book about that country to write, and in the spring it will be in the shop. When I left, I did not yet know whether the operation was successful – for that you have to wait for the next blood test. But because I fulfilled my book could work, I thought, not continuous: later they say that my PSA values are still too high, and I get chemo and radiation treatments. I am once crashed, in Vilnius, just before I was in Belgium on research had. But three months after the operation I was the redeeming call from the doctor: ‘It is no longer traceable.’ I was healed.”
Read the entire interview with Kurt Van Eeghem this week in HUMO.
