Mika Immonen: a crumbling turn in the situation of cancer

Mika Immonen In the voice, the zeal shines. He is traveling to Qatar to the 10-ball tournament in a few days to fight for prize money and trophy with top players in the world.

For a 52 -turning 52, there is nothing new in itself, but recently every tournament that Immonen has been able to go relatively well -off has been a great victory.

At the end of the year, Immonen was anything but good forces. At that time, he tried his best to get his best from one tournament to another while suffering from ever-worsening, severe back and stomach pain.

At the end of November in Japan, Immonen had barely been able to sleep and looked so bad that the top player Nayoki Oi Had had been trunk at Immonen’s local hospital for examination.

The results were alarming. Immonen immediately contacted the oncologist he knew Zenen Zeledoniinhe knew he lived in the next destination in Costa Rica.

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Of course it was shocked, but I decided to do as the doctor says and just try to fight.

Long After the flight, Immonen was at the collapse point. Zeledon took him straight to the drip. Immonen had inadvertently exacerbated his dehydration in trying to relieve his pain in Japan.

“The only place where the pains were not so severe was a hot bath. Sometimes I fell asleep when the pain in bed was too severe. ”

After further examinations in Costa Rica, the cause of the pain became clear. Immonen heard that he had fourth degree cancer, more specifically adenocarcinoma. The oblong tumor extended from the colon to the rectum and had had time to take the world champion in poor condition.

“It was a hard blow,” Immonen sighs.

“You have seen those situations when someone gets such a diagnosis. It doesn’t think it would come to its own. Of course it was shocked, but I didn’t get despair. I decided to do as the doctor says and just try to fight. ”

By the doctor There was encouragement to offer. As Immonen was relatively young and took care of her physical condition, she was given the most sturdy possible cytostatic mix.

Immonen got along right away. He put his diet in shape and explained which trace elements could help with the disease.

“I was like getting it prepared for the tournament. All I had to do was go to work. ”

Immonen is always used to working. An uncompromising attitude has made him a genuine international top star in Finland in Finland.

During the 1990s, it has brought him the World Championships in the 9 and 10 balls, and the winner of the 9-ball big tournament, two in a row-and as a ruthless competitor of reputation, whose buzzing temperament entertains and shares opinions.

The new situation put Immonen’s world -famous impairedness in an unprecedented way.

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Those first times were pretty tough.

He received the first cytostatic treatments in Costa Rica the day before his birthday in 2023. They took their feet under.

Immonen could sleep in the tube for 13 hours during the first treatment periods and was completely powerless. When the toilet struck at night, Immonen had to ask her girlfriend to help her get up in bed.

“That’s where I could drag to the bathroom. Those first times were pretty tough. ”

As the feeling started to improve slightly, Immonen acquired a yoga instructor, focused on developing his mental and physical well -being and trusted his fate in the hands of his doctor.

The first three cytostatic rounds Immonen received Immonen in Costa Rica before moving to his hometown New York’s prestigious Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital.

The treatments worked like a carbon monoxide, and in May Immonen got some happy news. There was no trace of cancer in the latest scans.

“It seemed that I had already beat it.”

Otherwise However, it was. Immonen spent the summer in the sense of his strength, vacationed in Europe, and toured the Pool tour races full of new enthusiasm. However, a little quiet back pain began to announce itself again.

“I tried to explain it with something else, but of course it predicted bad.”

The July scans revealed overwhelming information. The cancer had returned.

“It was a bit here and there, in addition to the intestine in the bone and in the spine. There was something in the lungs, and there was something in the lymph nodes, ”Immonen sighs.

“I asked what degree. The doctor said we were again in the fourth degree. I was that hell, ”Immonen laughs.

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It was harder to swallow than the first diagnosis.

Immonen received cytostatic treatment again on the same day. There was a six -week -to -do wait before the next scan, which would explain how cancer had responded to new treatments.

“It was harder to swallow than the first diagnosis. I was a little depressed and I was afraid of the whole situation, ”Immonen admits.

After six weeks, Immonen waited again with his doctor’s packages. Fortunately, a doctor marched in the room with a relief to the room. The drugs were biting again, and the cancer colonies had begun to decline.

“I have an Irish female doctor who is pretty straightforward. When he is positive, I know things are pretty well, ”Immonen laughs.

Autumn And during early winter, Immonen’s life has been navigating in the jungle of different calendar entries. His lives that are recurring every couple of weeks of consuming cytostatic treatments, as well as scanning every few weeks, telling what has happened to the cancer since the last treatments.

Between them, Immonen has stubbornly tried to stay on the pool calendar, even though he gives his competitors an apparently much handicap.

In November, in Florida, he played his opening match so that the pump attached to the hospital pumped the cancer drug directly into the vein under the jersey.

“Nothing comfortable to play,” Immonen says.

In the game situation Immonen is still the same passionate herself. In September in Philadelphia Skyler Woodwardia against.

“The stone went from a small angle to a bag in the top of the kas to the coin. If I had won that batch, I would probably have won the entire tournament, ”Immonen recalls.

Immonen would whip her stick on the table and threw a yard ball in pain to roll around the table before marching to shake her opponent. Later, he apologized for his behavior on Facebook.

“I didn’t have anything against Skyler, but my own mocha was annoyed, and I gave up the match. It was a difficult place, and my reaction was quite understandable, ”Immonen says.

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Playing has been a good thing for me. You don’t just have to sit at home and be a patient.

The episode tells its own language that even in the midst of cancer, sports are still for Immonen, if not a matter of life and death, in any case very important.

He sees passion to remain a great strength in his current situation. At the table you can truly live in an instant.

“Playing has been a good thing for me. You don’t just have to sit at home and be a patient. ”

The competition for wins and match wins is just as ruthless as always.

“And I don’t want any pity, or that I would be treated somehow differently. I don’t want to be a patient, but I pull as normally as I can. ”

Interview at a time of [joulukuussa 2024 ]A few days earlier, Immonen has visited the latest scanning. The doctor was still optimistic, although Immonen said “it could go better”.

“It is said that there was no ultra -positive news, but the doctor says the situation is stable. In some places, the situation has improved slightly and in other places it is unchanged. ”

“At least the cancer has not progressed. ”

Immonen’s treatment program will remain unchanged at least until the next scan. After that, the situation will be redefined. At times, you have time to get around the competitions, celebrate birthdays and enjoy Christmas.

In the midst of turmoil, the 52-year-old Konkari has been pleased with the stages of his career and life.

“It has been updated that ohhoh, pretty well here is sometimes pulled. There is a pretty list of merits there, which can be proud of. Yes, it gives you pleasure that you have achieved almost everything that you can achieve in Bilis.

And Immonen is by no means ready. His goal is to win at least one big tournament in the pool. The competitor-Mika raises his head again, and in the mouth of a self-confident grin you can almost hear at the other end of the phone.

“I’ve found a little that old Mika. Then, when I beat this, those other friends need to be worried. ”