Mexico City.
the actor Toño Mauri he finally left the hospital to finish his recovery from home, after undergoing one double lung transplant surgery at the end of last year.
“I thought I was going to go to the hospital and I was coming home the same day, but what was my surprise, that it wasn’t like that. The virus directly attacked my lungs, It hurt them a lot, then I could no longer breathe.
“The only hope they gave me was to look for a lung transplant,” he said Toño Mauri in an interview with program awakens America, where he assured that of the eight months he remained in the hospital, four passed them in a coma.
The businessman was also admitted in June last year, shortly after having tested positive Covid-19, Which worsened and he began to have trouble breathing.
“The first thing I thought about was my children, Carla and my family. And I told the doctor that it didn’t matter what I had to do. From here I don’t remember anything, until I woke up of the coma, ”he recounted Mauri.
Doctors told him he had to undergo double lung transplant surgery, which took place in Gainesville, Florida. Despite suffering an internal hemorrhage during the procedure, he managed to get ahead.
“God was with me. He always said to me, ‘My God, give me your hand, do not let me go and accompany me.’ He accompanied me, I felt his presence and he gave me peace. At 10 days I they said they already had lungs.
“Carla (His wife) told me that I had an internal hemorrhage, that they talked to him and told him I was not going to spend the night. And the next day they talked to him to tell him they didn’t know what had happened, but that I was normal. “
Mauri he shared that his recovery will be gradual as he is still unable to walk and is still rehabilitating from the tracheotomy he was given so he could breathe.