A gorgeous traffic cop who has gained a legion of adoring fans revealed details of her recovery from a bone marrow transplant.
Daniela Gaviria, 30, turned heads in late 2022 when a clip of her walking on a sidewalk in the Colombian city of Pereira went viral.
The clip, titled ‘The most beautiful agent of Pereira,’ shot her to fame in her native country.
The mother-of-two would often accommodate requests of strangers who would stop her in public to pose for photos and videos.
Little did they know that the stunning traffic agent was suffering from scleroderma, a rheumatic disease that thickens and hardens the skin, especially on the arms, fingers and face, and can also affect the lungs, heart, kidneys and digestive system.
‘Thank God I have been a very healthy woman,’ Gaviria said in an interview with Colombian newspaper El Diario.
‘It’s just that this condition woke up and we had to start a series of treatments to try to stop it, because it began to progress very quickly and the body began to reject them all,’ she explained.
‘The last option was a bone marrow transplant.’
Daniela Gaviria, 30, turned heads in late 2022 when a clip of her walking on a sidewalk in the Colombian city of Pereira went viral
The clip shot her to fame in her native country
Gaviria, who recently underwent a bone marrow transplant, suffers from a disease that thickens and hardens the skin, especially on the arms, fingers and face, and can also affect the lungs, heart, kidneys and digestive system
Before the procedure, Gaviria had undergone several treatments for her rare condition as it began to worsen.
After a while, her doctor stopped the treatments due to several factors, including her age.
She described how her blood vessels narrowed, altering her skin tone.
‘The color change in my hands is not in the skin, but rather it causes vasoconstriction, they turn purple, almost blue, as if I were having hypothermia and that happens when I have a very strong emotion, stress or a slight change in temperature,’ she explained.
Gaviria traveled to the city of Cali on December 5 for the bone marrow transplant and was admitted to a clinic, where she spent over a month inside a room with a fixed temperature of 59 degrees.
Her doctor, she said, has been blown away by the results of the transplant, calling it ‘the fastest post-transplant reconstruction he has seen.’
‘I am still under treatment, because the disease does not go away after this transplant, it has no cure,’ Gaviria said.
She added that ‘the idea of the transplant is to have control and quality of life’ and ‘not let it continue to progress so quickly.’
Sadly, Gaviria had to accept the reality that she could longer continue to follow in the footsteps of her mother, who also a traffic cop.
‘Thank God I have been a very healthy woman,’ Gaviria said while opening opened up about her health struggles
‘I am still under treatment, because the disease does not go away after this transplant, it has no cure,’ Gaviria acknowledged
‘A disability process begins and you get to a point where you can’t continue working and the pension process begins, I have really been very blessed because the pension [was approved],’ she explained.
The health scare left her with a new outlook on life.
‘Before the process, Daniela Gaviria was a woman full of flaws who valued simplicity, but believed that being surrounded by a lot of people was what was right, but she was not surrounded by the people close to her really important circle,’ she said.
‘I understood that the idea is to be calm without being concerned about perfection but about happiness and that indirectly will make you feel good.’
