Towards the end of December of last year, after having contracted COVID, I began to feel various respiratory discomforts to which I did not give due importance.
I thought they were mild sequelae that would disappear in the following weeks. However, my health was declining as the days passed until, at the beginning of January, I felt really bad and my oxygenation was well below normal while the pain increased.
Then came the time for an urgent hospitalization and extensive tests that yielded a serious and unmistakable diagnosis: Pulmonary Embolism, a condition about which he knew nothing or almost nothing.
For this reason, today I want to share with everyone in the form of an alert about the symptoms and the advice that they apply with a preventive nature for the good of their health.
The aforementioned pulmonary embolism is in a few words the formation of clots in the lungs that are life-threatening, because if they break free they can lodge through the blood flow in the heart as well as in the brain with a fatal outcome. Clotting that can be due to inherited genetics, physical immobility, the consequences of COVID, or as in my case also due to exposure to chemicals that are inhaled when painting in oils, especially for many years, and what to say half a century in my trade as a plastic artist.
Fortunately, they treated me promptly and efficiently, stabilized me and I am in full and enthusiastic recovery. The treatment will be long, at least 3 to 4 months, which forces me to reactivate my activities from less to more, be they personal, professional or social, apart from medication with anticoagulants and strict rehabilitation that involves breathing exercises, walking moderately and a healthy diet in order to reduce and completely disappear any trace of coagulation.
But I must say that I am getting ahead above all thanks to the supportive affection of my loved ones, such as my 3 children, my brothers and friends who have encouraged me. And of course, as I am a believer, thanks to God and to the Beings of Light who have gone before us, but are still among us.
By the way, shortly before I got sick, I was moved by the news that the Government of Nuevo León would honor me in the Senate of the Republic, scheduled for the end of March.
Thank you, always thank you, to the newspaper El Debate, which opened a privileged space for me to express my opinions, and to my readers alike, who for years encouraged me to continue as a journalist. Many blessings to all of you.
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