Elena Huelva (2002), the young influencer and writer who has stolen our hearts, died this January 3rd in Seville, cancer victim against whom he had been fighting for three years.

Around five in the afternoon on the second day of the year, Huelva uploaded a message to Instagram that worried all of his followers. On a black background he said goodbye with: “I love you“.

The young woman had finished 2022 full of hope and desire, even though the month of December was quite hard for her. She recognized that her illness, Ewing sarcoma It had gotten complicated, but he continued to keep faith. However, on the first day of 2023 she acknowledged that she was being “quite difficult“.

Now, the story of Elena Huelva is an authentic story of struggle and overcoming.

Resilience symbol

At 20 years old, the Sevillian had become quite a symbol of resilience and an icon in the fight against disease.

Elena Huelva was a young, vital and very positive girl, who was detected with cancer. At that moment, instead of breaking down, she decided that life is for living and she began to fight her illness tooth and nail to win the battle.

More than 780,000 people follow Elena Huelva on social networks, where since then she has shared details about her state of health and the disease with a positive nature under hashtags such as: #Fuckcancer or #Misganasganan.

In response, he always receives countless expressions of affection from anonymous people and well-known faces such as Sara Carbonero, Manuel Carrasco or Ana Obregón.

Also secret profiles like La Vecina Rubia usually send her strength and affection. In fact, when Elena Huelva shared in December that her health had worsened, she reminded him that His desire “has won us all.”

‘My desire wins’

Not only has he shared his struggle on social networks, but also in a book: My desire wins. Nobody has promised us a tomorrow, live in the present (Montena, 2022).

“Have you ever imagined how the word ‘cancer‘? Cancer has something curious and that is that we all think it belongs to others. Until it reaches you, and then it resonates too loudly, like a distant but incessant beeping, the kind that, once it starts, you can’t stop hearing.”

This is how his book begins. Huelva says that the first time she was diagnosed was in January 2019. “You know it’s cancerbut the patient does not realize it until the doctor pronounces it, from the first C to the last R.”

A few months ago, when we interviewed her in these pages, she told us that after several relapses she was going to keep fighting with all your strength and that the objective of the book was to support the research of Ewing sarcoma. “It was a dream that I was able to fulfill, I am very happy. “It has been wonderful.”

Our conversation ended with this message: “Hopefully I will be cured soon, but I am going to continue being positive because you should never be negative. To anyone who is going through the same thing as me, I send strength and encouragement, we must continue moving forward.”

Ewing sarcoma

Elena Huelva always aimed to make her illness visible and support research. Even today there are few who know what the Ewing sarcoma.

As we already explained in , it is a rare cancer that occurs in the bones or white tissue around them.

This, although it can occur at any age, is more common in children and adolescents.

This sarcoma can appear in any bone of the body, although it is more common to appear in the long bones of the extremities or pelvis. Less frequently, these tumors are located in the soft tissues of the chest and abdomen.

As in the case of Elena Huelva, most of the damage occurs in the first five years. Although it can be detected later.

This same sarcoma was also the cause of the death of Alexthe son of Ana Obregón, who has not stopped supporting Elena Huelva.

Today, wherever he is, we can only conclude by remembering that his desire to live has won us all over.

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