the colombian cyclist Egan Bernalcurrent champion of the Giro d’Italia, said this Thursday that he had “almost 20 broken bones” in the accident in which he almost lost his life and assured that yesterday was his “last major surgery and it seems that everything went well.”
“It is being the hardest race, but I have had a group of excellent people around me”, said the Ineos Grenadiers runner in a message on his account. Instagram, next to a photo of him with a neck brace, monitored and smiling in the hospital bed from the University Clinic of La Sabana, where he receives care.
The cyclist, who crashed on Monday of last week at high speed against a bus on the highway that goes from Bogotá to Tunja, near the municipality of Gachancipá, when the vehicle had stopped, made an enumeration of his injuries: “11 Ribs. Femur. Ball joint. T5-T6. Odontoids. metacarpal a thumb I dropped a tooth. Perforation of both lungs”.
“almost killed mebut you know what? I am grateful to God for giving me this test, “said the Colombian, gesturing with his hands in a head, and added: “now to recover and make this another… I’M BACK!! And let’s rock”.
The University Clinic of La Sabana de Chía, a town near Bogotá, reported this Wednesday that Bernal underwent vertical spine surgery with “excellent results” -the last important one, according to Bernal himself- and that he was in recovery.
“Cervical spine biomechanical stability goals achieved with excellent clinical results, without presenting complications during surgery”, is extracted from the information of the clinic.
Since the crash, in which he suffered fractures in some vertebrae, in the right femur and patella and in several ribs and also had a pulmonary perforation, the corridor has undergone several operations, some of them important, and all of them successful.
Bernal had previously referred to his followers in another message in which he said that “after having had a 95% chance of becoming paraplegic and nearly losing his life doing what he likes the most, he wanted to thank the support he has received and the attention at the clinic. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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