For Real Madrid supporters, the name of Fernando Morientes recalls pretty memories. The former striker has notably won two liga and three champions leagues there. Having become a consultant in Spain since the end of his football career, the forty-nine year old man travels a lot with a very busy schedule. But things suddenly stopped a few days ago. Victim of a pulmonary embolism, Morientes was hospitalized and almost was died.
He himself gave his news and told his disturbing experience on Saturday in the program “Tiempo de Juego” broadcast on the COPE. “I was very afraid, yes. I felt bad after a chain of travel to Colombia, India, Huelva … plane here and there. I started to feel bad during the journey between Huelva and Madrid. I had a chest pain. I didn't want to worry about it because I'm a bit silly. My wife wanted me to go to the hospital, I didn't want to. And in the night I felt that something was not normal. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't put myself in a certain way. I had chest pain just under the sternum. »»
Fernando Morientes shone during his years in Real Madrid, with three C1 and two liga on the counter.
Fernando Morientes then headed the hospital after a short and painful night. “They found that I had the very high enzymes and heart rate and that's where they started to worry. They did exams at the heart of the Achilles heel. »» Also looking for the leg and foot level, doctors quickly suspected a blood -related problem. What was confirmed, as continued to tell the former AS Monaco and OM.
“I went on the verge of dying”
“There was nothing at the heart of the heart. There, they saw an effusion in the pleura and they have alarmed themselves because it could come from the lungs. And they found a pulmonary thromboembolism. A embolism. It is a clot that formed at the back of my knee, that's what they explained to me, with all the time spent in the air and then in the car. I did not know it, but if I had taken heparin, it would have prevented the problem and my blood thickens little by little. The thrombus progressed to my lung and caused the pain that I felt. (…) I stayed for five days in the hospital and I spent on the verge of death. »»
A sacred fright for Fernando Morientes and for his family.
“My family was afraid and I too. At first I thought it was the heart and in fact it was even more serious. »» The former footballer takes the time to recover today. “Normal life resumes its course. Currently, I am at home, relaxed. »»
