The loss of her husband was for her Lena Manda a huge shock. Not because she didn’t know, the doctors had told her clearly from the first moment. She knew it, but as she says, you never prepare.
The beloved author was on the set of “Better Late” and spoke from the heart with Athenaida Nega, revealing all her feelings about the great loss she is experiencing.

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“The last year from June 16, 2023, when George came out of the hospital, and ended June 16, 2024, I consider it to be a period of preparation, as if he himself was preparing me, as if he was telling me: You will probably have to cope alone It was already a bit broken, all of it. I had been to Cyprus alone, Thessaloniki. I usually went around alone. He was not easy to get around, even with the portable oxygen device. It wasn’t very easy,” said Lena Manda initially and continued:

“It was 41 years, my whole life, so it was very difficult, because George and I went everywhere together. I told my daughter that I miss covid season for two reasons. One is that I was with George at home and we had an amazing time. George was a lot of things, he was my friend, we talked about everything, we laughed a lot together, so I had to reschedule, from the beginning”

“Yesterday was a very difficult day and today to reconstruct the face I used a lot of ice cubes on the face to come here to open the eyes” revealed the author.

-Does it help that your presence is required somewhere?

“No. You feel more pressure and usually this state of collapse occurs when I have to go to some social event. I have learned to manage my everyday life, my loneliness. When I have to get out of this security and I have to go somewhere, to smile and I no longer have him by my side, the absence is felt”

“I knew that the disease would not go away. After Easter, it had a very steep decline. Then I took the doctor and asked him what was going on: Have we entered the final stretch? And he said to me: In all probability. He explained exactly what to expect. No matter how much I said yes, I know it will go away, you don’t know it will ever go away. I had to stop, so he wouldn’t understand anything. I could see that the machine started and it wasn’t covering us, anymore. I was raising the oxygen levels, but still, it couldn’t,” says Lena Manda and is shocking:

“You never prepare even if you know. And I wanted to know. I told the doctor that our kids may be big but we will have issues. I asked about preparing them and he told me to. The countdown has begun. My daughter gave birth to her second child 20 days ago.

He had generators of joy, for my son I was afraid and rightly so. My son took it the hardest of all, he literally buckled. Just kneel down and stay. I counted the hours, counted his breaths. We were holding his hand, me, Alexander and Maria, who had to breastfeed left at that time. Again… There is no preparation for this.

I went through all the stages you go through. Denial, anger and now I’m down to the last one. I have my psychologist on a weekly basis. Now I am in sadness-depression… At some point this too will pass, it cannot be otherwise. I think the biggest and unanswered is why”