Esnéider Parra He left his house very early Chia to coordinate training with the athletes under his charge in that municipality. Yesenia Carrillo, with whom he has lived for four years and began a relationship 14 years ago, he saw the opportunity to go jogging. The experienced marcher, Colombian representative in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games 2016, he changed, put on his tennis shoes and went to play sports.
Came to The Forest, a place in Chía where athletes are generally summoned for their practices, and she told her husband that she was going to jog.
He had to revive her
Esnéider, that day, only had two athletes, who continued to take times in a fixed place, but decided to follow Yeseida, since the work was not so hard.
He got a tremendous surprise when he found several people who were on the floor trying to help an athlete. Esnéider arrived at the site and saw that Yeseida was on the ground, who had lost consciousness.
He took his pulse and it was low. Seconds later he realized that his lips were gray. She took his pulse again and there was no more. He did not hesitate a moment and he began performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers. There was no need to waste time. Yeseida was leaving as quickly as when she faced the finish line in the 20-kilometer walk tests, her specialty.
The people who were with him called the ambulance and while it arrived, Parra did everything possible to bring the athlete back to life and it was effective. She had a pulse again, they put her in the ambulance and took her to the Chía Clinic, where the doctors who received her performed two defibrillations.
The anguish of the coach and husband of the athlete was tremendous. She couldn’t believe that she was in that situation, but it was another test, perhaps more difficult than those 20 km in Rio. He knew that her partner was not in good health and that her life was in danger.
The prognosis is not the best, it is not favorable at all. Has severe brain damage
His soul returned to his body when he was informed that his heart was beating again, but a long time passed.
“It was about 20 minutes and during that period no oxygen reached the brain,” recalled Esneider, who recounted the hard moments he experienced on April 8, 2024.
The doctors decided to refer her to a specialized center and she was taken to the Cafam clinic in Santa Bárbara, on 127th Street in Bogotá. She entered the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the ordeal continued.
“They told us that he had suffered heart disease due to arrhythmia, which caused his sudden death. The prognosis is not the best, it is not favorable at all. She has severe brain damage. At first she was in a coma and they told us that she could stay there, there was nothing to do. She has made progress, she already has eye opening, she breathes on her own. They made him tracheostomy (form of airway for people who have difficulty breathing on their own) and gastrostomy (tube feeding),” Parra said.
Although he was released two weeks ago, he has not been able to make it effective, as he has had several infections. Esnéider Parra warns that the idea is to take her to Chía’s house, but at the moment it is not possible because the doctors do not authorize until she is completely stabilized, without fever.
The evolution has not been much. Yeseida is in bed, her relatives talk to her about her and they warn that sometimes she understands them, although her husband says that these movements are caused by the same seizures that she presents and not because they are stimuli produced directly by her. .
“The brain is very sensitive to lack of oxygen, to hypoxia. And after two or three minutes without adequate oxygenation, the tissue is injured and that is generally irreversible. Brain recovery is practically non-existent and requires some extra surgical procedures to help with the patient’s daily care. She requires to be in a chronic care unit with a tracheostomy and gastrostomy. “She is bedridden and she needs the care of a person who cannot take care of herself,” the doctor said. Mauricio Quiroga.
Old process
It was not the
first time that Carrillo presented these episodes. Five years ago, Yeseida had a syncope during one of her training sessions, when she was still an active athlete. The tests gave no worrying results and she was informed that she had had low blood sugar.
A year later she was the great favorite to win the National Walking Championship in Bogotá, in which a place for the South American Championship in Lima, Peru, from March 7 to 8 of that year was at stake. She was in the front lot and when she was turning on the fifth lap she collapsed, fell on her face, did not react and was taken to the hospital to rule out a heart attack.
“They took me to Simón Bolívar Hospital, where they did several tests on me and they discharged me on Sunday (the next day), but I must continue under observation, because it had already happened to me before in training,” Yesiedia told that time to www.runningcolombia.com
The athlete underwent exhaustive tests and had to give up sports. Her husband says that the exams were done privately, because she did not have health insurance. She had a heart biopsy, a holter scan, and an echocardiogram.
The tilt table test (in which the cause of syncope is investigated) was positive, because he fainted. The diagnosis was vasovagal syncope, a serious problem in which less blood reaches the brain because the heart rate is slow and the blood vessels are dilated, causing fainting.
“We had to make a strict change. The diet was different, he had to wear compression stockings, perform specialized exercises before and after training, but the process Tokyo Olympics underwent variations. Some time later he retired from the sport, but he did not have those syncope again until the one he suffered last April.
Its beginnings
Diego Diaz He knows her very well. Chía’s athletics coach remembers that in 2009, Yeseida arrived with a group of students from Diosa Chía school in order to do community work and fulfill social service hours. Several of her teammates were athletes on Chía’s team and Díaz was already aware that the athlete had the conditions to be an athlete.
“While she was doing her hours, I made her practice. She did long distance, middle distance, javelin throw, long jump. One day she decided to stop social service and dedicated herself to training. Some time later she told me that racing was not her thing and she switched to running,” said the coach.
It has been a hard impact. I can’t accept it. Life with Yeseida is unfair
In that group was Sandra Galvis, today Díaz’s wife, who invited Yeseida to practice marching. She learned quickly, assimilated the technique in a special way and within a month she was departmental champion. She attended a national tournament in Medellín and won the silver medal.
“His size, long legs, and slim body were characteristics that made it easier for him to walk. He also had a winning mentality. He always wanted to improve himself, to be a medalist,” recalls Diego Díaz.
It has not been easy for the coach to assimilate his student’s drama. She cannot understand that she is going through that situation, because she remembers when she was the U-23 national and South American champion, while she was still a youth athlete.
“It has been a hard impact. I can’t accept it. They are very close beings. Life with Yeseida is unfair. He closed his high performance cycle, he had finished his specialization in physical activity, he was doing a master’s degree in physical education at the Pedagogical University and had entered the teaching staff of l< b>to Military University. It is unbelievable,” Díaz said.
Sandra knows her well, very well. She was the one who took her to the march, gave her the first indications of her technique. She was her rival, the person she trained with. Countless times they were part of the local, departmental and national teams, but that’s life.
“The best memory I have of her was when we won the bronze medal in the World Team Championships. Rome in 2016. That was before the Rio Olympics, on the team we were with Sandra Lorena Arenas and Arabelly Orjuela”Commented Galvis, who recalled that Díaz was the coach that time.
And he added: “It is a very strong situation. He is a very young person. Long time in sport. Very active and what happened is something that surprises us a lot and hurts us. There were many years of living many experiences together and the situation is not easy at all. “I know the family well, but I have faith that he will recover.”
Isaíd, Yeseida’s mother, has drawn strength from where she does not have it. She has had to live through two very sad episodes in the last year, because in 2023 she lost one of her children, Samuel, who died. She had not stopped from that hard blow, when she had what happened to Yeseida.
What we ask is that it is in the best condition, that it has an ideal bed for these cases, an anti-decubitus mattress, diapers and a catheter. There are quite a few things coming
Esnéider’s support is Diego, Sandra, Isaíd, Álvaro and Raúl, the other two brothers of Yeseida Carllo, who continues to fight for her life. He was born on October 22, 1993 and was always characterized as a person who helped others. He would arrive at the training sessions for the little ones in Chía and take out of his bag the gels that they gave him in high performance and distribute them.
He would arrive at the little ones’ training sessions in Chía and take out of his bag the gels that they gave him in high performance and distribute them.
“They are going to give us an appointment with the electrophysiologist to see if they put a pacemaker in him, in case he goes into unemployment. What we ask is that it is in the best condition, that it has an ideal bed for these cases, an anti-decubitus mattress, diapers and a catheter. There are quite a few things coming. We need the creams, the medications, body cloths. We have been making some progress on the issue of oxygen,” says Parra.
“We don’t know what they’re going to give us and what they’re not going to give us. We are talking with Sanitas, which is the EPS, to see what process is coming. We know that they will give us a nurse to train us, but then it is up to us alone to care for her. Yeseida needs 24-hour nurses and physical and occupational therapy sessions, speech therapy treatment and everything at home,” she said.
Esnéider Parra says that they will have to settle down. Make time for his job as an athletics coach in Chía, to which he dedicates himself with a service provision contract, and care for his wife, who was unable to sign the contract with him. Colombian Olympic Committee (COC).
“I have to be in charge of his recovery, but at the same time I have to do the job. It is uncertain what will happen. What they tell me is that for a year or so, it will not be possible to say what the consequences of the injury will be. She is only 30 years old and life has given us this tough test, from which we are willing to overcome,” stated Esnéider, who does not stop ensuring that he will do the impossible for her, to keep her alive.
Lisandro Rengifo
Editor of EL TIEMPO
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