"I don't have a stomach and I'm alive": Camila had cancer and created a group to help others

María Camila Gómez's profile appears on the cell phone screen and captures attention."Hello!I am @mariacamilagomez31 and yes, I have no stomach ”, reads in his biography. “Sin estómago desde el 2019″, decía.

How is it possible?Can you live without a stomach?Those same two questions was asked María Camila, when she received the diagnosis in a Medellín clinic.

Todo comenzó con un simple dolor de panza y desencadenó en una situación que ella, a sus 16 años no imaginaba: le detectaron dos tumores en el estómago, pólipos y un principio de metástasis.The young woman is from Barranquilla, Colombia, and for her health she had to settle in Medellín.

“A doctor appeared that I had never seen and told me that I was directly to surgery, but I did not understand what it meant at the time. Pensé que iba a ser como sacarme una muela, es decir, que me sacaban algo y ya. Pero me cambió la vida”, le contó a TN.

She was sure that everything was going to work out, but acknowledged that the day they explained what her state of health "was the most difficult". “Lloré mucho, para mí fue impresionante, pero lo logré: no tengo estómago y estoy viva. Soy una prueba de que se puede seguir”, dijo la joven.

“The first year after the operation I ate normal but in small proportions.In the second, many things began to like me and that affected me: I can't consume food with sugar, dairy or gluten, ”he explained.

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For that reason, the young Colombian takes "food everywhere"."Now there are more restaurant options, but I have to have extreme care: there are sauces for example that they have sugar, the people of the place do not know and my body immediately recognizes it," he said.

María Camila was caught that no professional has spoken to her "nutritional part" with details.“They tell you that you are going to eat more often, but they do not tell you about the process that you are going to happen.Following a healthy diet 'is a very broad concept for these types of cases, ”he said.

Ante la falta de información, y por vivir “días difíciles, agotadores y frustrantes”, decidió crear una comunidad en las redes para compartir su experiencia, generar conciencia sobre el cáncer de estómago y ayudar a quienes viven lo mismo que ella.

“Mi familia y mis amigos siempre me acompañaron, son mi red de contención más grande, pero es un alivio mayor hablar con otra persona que tuvo el mismo diagnóstico.I also started having many changes that I had not had, being just operated, and I felt a bit alone in the process, ”he said.

He opened the group in March and already has followers in Chile, Spain, and Sweden who share the sensations."I didn't think to find something like that because most are young, operated about four years ago, it's all very recent," he said.

María Camila aseguró que el grupo la “ayuda a tener fuerza” y enfocarse “en las cosas buenas”. “Que se sume gente es una sensación contradictoria porque por un lado pienso: ´Qué mal que esté pasando por eso´ y a la vez, ´¡Qué chévere haber creado este grupo de contención para no estar solos!´”.