ThoseFrom Pully to Geneva
Young cancer heals go on a cruise on Lake Geneva
Septuagint and a children and adolescents in remission take part in the adventure this year. Arrival Sunday in Geneva.
Elise and Ahmadou this Saturday afternoon in Prangins.
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- Teenagers in cancer remission sail on Geneva to Geneva.
- Young participants share their difficult experiences in the face of the disease.
- The therapeutic cruise combines learning sailing and moments of relaxation.
- Léman Hope plans to welcome 300 young participants by 2030.
Postcard decor, this summer Saturday at the end of the lake. An all blue and clear Lake Geneva, like the sky, surrounded by the Alps and the Jura. On board an 11 meter sailboat, Ahmadou, 13, admires the medieval town of Yvoire: “In June, the doctors told me that I was in remission of my cancer, a brain tumor. This news was a real release. I hope I no longer see the concern in my parents’ eyes. ”
Medication on board
After an operation this spring, this resident of Saint-Légier, near Vevey, took off Tuesday in Pully for an exceptional cruise: “With other young people like me, we sail thanks to Lake Hope Until Sunday. Final destination: Geneva. An experience that allows us to share what we have experienced. And I therefore feel very well understood. ” That’s to say? “For example, I have my right side which works less well today. In the gym, I can’t do everything. These are things that young people here on board understand well when comrades at school say to me: “But it’s good, you are healed!”
By his side, Elise, 13, approves a smile as tall as her beautiful glasses and delivers her experience: “Disease is also the drugs that cause nausea, fatigue and cut you hunger.”
“Not to me, interrupts, hilarious, Ahmadou. The appetite, I never lost it. Besides, here we eat very well. ” A subtle way of lightening the conversation and paying homage to Christophe Millier, alias “TEUF”, their beloved skipper. The latter returns the compliment: “They are the ones who prepare, who rid, who make the dishes and work on the boat.”
Boin reward
To reward them with their efforts in navigation, “and to appease sea sickness at the start”, specifies Ahmadou, the boss of the sailboat has planned bathing places: “In Prangins, in front of the Prommenthouse. We will also set the course on Crans-Près-Céligny. ”
Elise, healed from a tumor to a kidney, will not soon forget her night under the stars this week: “It was magnificent”, testifies the Sedunoise. Very disciplined, these young people, who must still take their treatment on the boat, do not need to be imposed on them a curfew: “They collapse quickly at night, it’s physical the days here,” says “TEUF”.
Jade, 11, participates in the cruise of Léman Hope.
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Of ancient history
Another sailboat, that led by Henri Oeggerli, a Geneva doctor keen on navigation, accosted in Yvoire: the cheers participants are hand over the nearest glacier. Jade, 11, tastes a salted butter caramel horn. Asked about her fight against cancer, the girl of Vulliens, in the big-of-the-day, remembers her concern while looking at her parents shortly before going to the operating room.
A brain tumor, from the ancient history on which it does not linger. “I don’t really like to stay blocked on things in the past.” We do not insist. She prefers to evoke “superbaine in Excenevex yesterday” and her desire to become a journalist “to travel in a motorhome around the world”.
Become a doctor or nurse
Ahmadou feels another vocation: radiologist doctor. “A form of recognition vis-à-vis the medical world.” Elise goes in the same direction: “I want to be a nurse like Céline.” Céline? “She looked very well with me at the CHUV.” Ahmadou also knows her, he said. “But mine is called Maria. I owe her life. It’s a bit like my second mom. “
Sunday, 3 p.m., to the Nautical Society of Geneva, the parents of young cruise workers await them on the shore.
Since 2020, the Léman Hope project has allowed children and adolescents At the end of treatment against disease to benefit from a particular trip supervised by sailing professionals. About sixty young people in remission took part in the adventure in 2023. Septantant and one participated this year and Léman Hope aims at the figure of 300 in 2030.
Development follows.
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