“I cannot live without you”: Catherine Laborde’s companion delivers a touching testimony

“How to face as a couple an intruder named Parkinson?“, that’s how presented the book Sick love (ed. Plon)written with four hands by and sound. A book published in October 2021, which testifies to the couple’s desire to reconnect with love dialogue, despite the disease. This disease that finally took Catherine Laborde this Tuesday, January 28. The host – who presented the weather from 1988 to 2017 on TF1 – has reported her family to l’Afp. For several years, the former journalist has been fighting one. If her sister Françoise Laborde, with whom she maintained saws of saw, already expressed herself, the two men of her life, Thomas Stern, but also the discreet Jimmy, father of her two daughters Gabrièle (1987) and Pia (1990), remained silent in silence. But by rereading Sick loveFollowing this sad disappearance, one can only imagine the pain in which Thomas Stern is found today, he who had gone from the status of lover to that of caregiver for the last years of the life of Catherine Laborde.

“Would your illness make you another? An additional creature that would come to interfere between us and live with a clean existence? We are not there yet […]wrote Thomas Stern. Where the caregiver sees in the patient the incarnation in flesh and bones of an illness that he knows how to identify, the helping, he sees a single individual who only resembles. And this individual, he wants to continue to see him despite the disease and the deformations it imposes.“Evoking the possible end of life of the one he loved so much, he shared his pain:”I don’t want you to go. I don’t want to lose you, I don’t want you to get lost. I can’t live without you. How could I live with you if, for you, you are no longer you?“In these pages, Thomas Stern also made his pain know, when Catherine Laborde a few lines above mentioned her anger.”And I don’t suffer? My anxieties, my disarray, my rout, does it count for butter? Ah yes, I forgot, I am the helpful and you help her. I am here to support you with unshakable patience, by displaying twenty -four hours a week a benevolent smile that the hospital staff adorns in his good days. I’m not here to complain, but only to take shocks and reassure around your condition“, can we read. Hard phrases that echo the silent suffering in which large number of caregivers are locking.

Catherine Laborde and Thomas Stern, a fiery couple

With Sick loveCatherine Laborde and her last companion had decided to remember their love, for which they intended to fight. A singular love. “”We were then A couple ignited by sexual fury But not yet formed, like these lava bubbles of the ocean which are not yet islands, thus shared man. We formed a tanging and tangiant couple, a swinging coupleand our freedom was that of a chaotic attractor with two entries.“They then wanted to fight to find this freedom which represented them so much.”It seems to me that if we managed the patient and I help her, to distribute a few degrees of freedom, leaving our roles, to find the equality that the words that exchange, we would do, we would do something to ‘unexpected, rare, and may be a little bigger than our lives“Written the man who made Catherine Laborde beat, with ups and downs, until he stopped this Tuesday, January 28, 2025.