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Barrichello: A miracle that I am alive

Ex-Formula 1 driver Rubens Barrichello revealed during an interview aired on Brazilian television how he nearly succumbed to cancer earlier this year and believes that only a miracle kept him alive. During an interview with Globo TV presenter Pedro Bial, 45-year-old Barrichello revealed, 'I had a benign vascular tumour in my neck and it is really a miracle that I am alive.' 'One Saturday [in January] I woke up and had a shower, suddenly I felt a terrible headache – on the scale of zero to ten it was a nine – next thing I found myself on the floor. I did not want to wake anyone, so I dragged myself back to bed but the pain was excruciating.' 'Luckily Silvana (his...
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