What is the von Willebrand disease suffered by Alessandro Lequio and that Ana Obregón reveals in her book?

Despite the fact that she has been grabbing headlines for weeks and being the center of attention of an entire country, Ana García Obregón is willing to continue being the protagonist of the gossip press for a long time.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
19 April 2023 Wednesday 23:45
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What is the von Willebrand disease suffered by Alessandro Lequio and that Ana Obregón reveals in her book?

Despite the fact that she has been grabbing headlines for weeks and being the center of attention of an entire country, Ana García Obregón is willing to continue being the protagonist of the gossip press for a long time. The actress from Ana y los Siete has just published the book that her late son Aless Lequio started and that she has finished, a very special publication where she addresses the loss and emotional tear that the death of the "little" of she.

When Aless Lequio died of cancer in 2020, at just 27 years of age, the world stopped for Ana Obregón. After a long time without the desire to live and without finding a reason to move on, the artist decided to fulfill the "three wishes" that her son left her: create a foundation to fight cancer, publish her book and have offspring.

The Aless Lequio Foundation began its journey on February 3, 2023 and, as stated on its website, it was created with the sole objective of raising funds to promote cancer research in Spain, a country in which each Every year 120,000 people die from this disease. With the birth of this entity, Obregón crossed off the first wish on his list and moved a little closer to his initial goal.

A few weeks ago, the magazine Hello! revealed that the actress had become a mother at age 68 by surrogacy in Miami, United States. This process was carried out with the frozen semen of her son and named the little girl Ana Sandra. Biological grandmother and adoptive mother, Obregón was another step closer to fulfilling Aless Lequio's last wishes.

The last step to achieve his goal was to finish the book that his son began shortly before he died: The Shrew Boy. Although Lequio only left about 20 pages written, Ana Obregón herself decided to finish the text, taking advantage of each letter, paragraph and page to spit out her feelings and thus share how she lived through the illness of her son and her subsequent death. .

The Shrew Boy was released last Wednesday, April 19, and is already a best-seller on all platforms and bookstores. In it, Obregón opens up and shows us the most vulnerable facet of him, narrating anecdotes, conversations and an endless number of special and hard moments that they went through during the last months with Aless Lequio's life.

Although the book addresses a large number of topics that will give a lot to talk about in the coming days, Obregón talks about his ex-partner, Alessandro Lequio. Specifically, he talks about the medical condition that he suffers from and that he feared his son Aless would inherit: von Willebrand disease. It is a chronic disorder that makes it difficult for blood to clot properly. Blood contains many proteins that help the body stop bleeding, and one of these proteins is called von Willebrand factor.

In the second chapter of the book, Obregón tells that he informed the doctors of such a father's problem just in case it was what was happening to his son, although they quickly realized that the condition he was suffering from was different from his father's illness. , since it was a cancer, more specifically an Ewing sarcoma.