Florencia, an Argentine who has recovered from breast cancer, denounced on social networks that the government forces her to carry a legend on her traffic license for life that says: “she has breast cancer.”
It happened in Córdoba, the second city in the country, where this 34-year-old woman lives who fought for more than a year against breast cancer that she was able to overcome.
After long months of treatment, chemotherapy sessions, visits to hospitals and a couple of surgeries, Florencia was able to overcome the drama of the disease, however, she denounces that she is stigmatized as a “cancer patient” when it comes to renewing her license traffic.
cancer and stigma
The story became known through social networks when Florencia shared on Twitter what happened to her when she wanted to renew her traffic license at one of the offices in the city where she lives.
The bad experience went viral.
“I came to renew my driver’s license (transit license). I leave feeling stressed, wiping my tears and with the ‘disabled’ tag on my forehead. They gave it to me for only two years, asking me for a medical certificate to drive and they put the disease on my license. With what need?”, the woman wrote next to a photograph of the license and the phrase “ca de mama” written on the driver’s license.
I came to renew my driver’s license, I leave feeling stressed, wiping my tears and with the “disabled” label on my forehead. They gave it to me for only 2 years, asking me for a medical certificate to drive and they put the disease on my license. What need? pic.twitter.com/ZNnvHnQGKF
– Florcita (@florcita_an) August 22, 2022
Florencia told the local media The voice that he does not want anyone to be suspended or fired, but that he uploaded the issue to the networks because of the bad experience he had.
He also said that it all started when the officials saw the short hair he is currently wearing.
“It fell off because of chemotherapy, but it is already growing. In the previous license I appear with long hair, because I used to have it down to my waist, ”she replied.
“I no longer have the disease, but they still rejected the request. I asked why, if I’m fine. They told me that they needed the medical certificate because they did not know how she was in health and my defenses, ”she said.
And he added in statements to the media: “I offered to present the blood tests that they did to me during the chemotherapy sessions. My defenses never went down, but they refused the request. I went out, I cried, because I felt very bad. It seemed incredible to me that they were denying me a license for having had an illness. I wrote to my doctor and he sent me the apt via Whatsapp. I printed it out, came back and they agreed to give me the record, although only for a period of two years, to assess my state of health during this time. They promised that the next time they would give it to me for five years”, explained Florencia.
The text that stigmatizes her
Florencia said that when they gave her the license, she read that the phrase “breast cancer” appears.
There I asked the reason, because he no longer has the disease and They replied “that’s the system”.
“I have no problem telling that I had the disease and that I am undergoing treatment. But there are people who prefer to keep it private, why should that appear on a public document that anyone can see during a traffic control? Why does everyone have to find out that someone had this or that disease? Now I am going to have a license for two years that says I have breast cancer, when I no longer have it, ”he denounced.
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