Andrea Vianello is back on tv after the stroke: don't be embarrassed, the disease is not a fault

The biggest fear was not the stroke, but the words could not say. Andrea Vianello, is back on tv, after the stroke he suffered, as a guest in The words of the week, the program conducted by Massimo gramellini, la stampa, Rai 3. "I didn't think that could happen back in the one tv studio, not even so important," he explained. "When I woke up and couldn't talk about the most important thing was the tv or the job. Even if I do not know how to do anything, and I was only doing the job of the person speaking. I wanted to resume my life, to talk with my children, with my wife". The return on the small screen after the stroke that kept him away from the tv for a year, he had announced himself, with a tweet: "Tonight I go back to tv, after a year, a guest of @MaxGramel to @LeParoleRai3 to tell the story of my book, Every word that I knew. In fact. That just passed seemed like my night before the exams".

Vianello, welcomed by the audience, the applause, tells of the difficulty of recovering the use of language. Appear on the screen a series of words. "I was treated first at the Umberto I and then to the Foundation Santa Lucia, public health," says the journalist, "I have so much helped. These words on the screen are the first that I learned to say. I had completely lost the phonemes. A girl he saved my life, it's called Flavia, has thirty years, is my speech therapist and it was like my mom. The first time with her, I couldn't figure out how to put the language to pronounce the consonants".