Rob Thomas, ‘helpless and guilty’ sa sakit ng asawa
SINISIKAP ng singer na si Rob Thomas na tulungan ang asawang si Marisol sa 14taong pakikipaglaban sa Lyme disease.
Ang Matchbox Twenty frontman ay mahigit 18 taon nang kasal sa brunette beauty at nananatili sa tabi nito habang nakikipaglaban ito sa sakit.
Nakakatakot ang karanasan para sa bituin.
“It’s like if one day you woke up and there was an alien living in your house and the first couple of weeks you’d be f**king freaked out, but after a while you’d name it and it would just be there,” anang Rob sa panayam ng Entertainment Tonight. “This sickness has been like this weird alien that’s moved into our life and inhabited my wife. Sometimes she’s just not herself. Watching the person you’re closest to become someone other than herself is so (hard).”
Ang 41-anyos ay dumanas din ng constant pain at seizures, dahil sa fatal disease na naihahawa ng pulgas.
“It’s like you’re standing still, unable to participate as everything keeps going on without you, then you wake up the next day and the same thing happens,” kuwento ni Marisol. “I don’t consider what I’m doing living. I’m existing... and fighting to hopefully one day live again.”
Gayunman, nagpapasalamat si Marisol sa suporta ng kanyang asawa, at naawa sa iba pang nagdurusa rin sa parehong sakit na walang ganitong uri ng pagmamahal.
Samantala, dinurog ng sakit ang pag-asa ng mag-asawa na magkaanak – isang bagay na kailangan nilang tanggapin.
“For so long now, we’ve told ourselves that we never really wanted kids together that we don’t know if that’s even true,” pag-amin ni Rob. “We’ve known for the last decade that because of Mari’s health, that was something we couldn’t do and you just resign yourself to the fact.”
Nagi-guilty rin si Rob sa katotohanan na siya ay malusog habang ang kanyan asawa ay hindi.
“Often their day-to-day life makes you feel selfish just by doing normal things,” aniya. “I’ll say, ‘Man, I had the worst show’, then realise who I’m talking to and go, ‘I’m sorry, that’s the stupidest thing to say!’”
Kasalukuyang bumibiyahe si Marisol kasama ang asawa para sa A Brief History
of Everything tour ng Matchbox Twenty at nagtatrabaho bilang advocate upang itaas ang kamalayan tungkol sa kanyang sakit, na nagpapahirap din kina Avril Lavigne at Yolanda Hadid.