The Colombian cyclist spoke on social networks about his accident last Monday during training in the municipality of Gachancipá, Colombia.
the colombian cyclist Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) spoke this Friday in his social networks to detail the evolution after the multiple interventions to which he was subjected after the accident last Monday on the roads of Cundinamarca, Colombia.
Even with two pending operations for this Friday, the winner of the 2019 Tour de France posted messages on his social networks in which expresses his gratitude for being alive, after a head-on collision with a parked bus, while training on the highway that goes from Bogotá to Tunja, near the municipality of Gachancipá,
“After having the 95% chance of becoming paraplegic and nearly losing his life doing what I like to do the most. Today I want to thank God, to the Unisabana clinic, to all its specialists for doing the impossible”, posted the one from Zipaquirá.
Bernal also posted a photography from the hospital bed, surrounded by cables, with a neck brace and a ok gesture with the left hand.
“I’m still in ICU (intensive care) waiting for more surgeries, but trusting in God everything will be fine, “continues the message.
This Friday, the Colombian will undergo two other surgeries that “are not life-threatening”, clarified his surroundings, while the clinic in which he is treated issued a statement stating that Bernal “has continued with the expected recovery and with a favorable trend.”
The interventions will be for a fracture of the second metacarpal of the right hand and the other is one maxillofacial to carry out the management of “some dento-alveolar fractures that he presents in the mouth”.
in mishap, Bernal suffered fractures of vertebrae, in the right femur and patella and in several ribs, He also had a pulmonary perforation, for which he has undergone five surgeries. (D)
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