Mexico City.
actor Toño Mauri finally left the hospital to complete his recovery from home after suffering a double lung transplant surgery at the end of last year.
“I thought I would go to the hospital and return home the same day, but what was my surprise was that it wasn’t like that. The virus directly attacked my lungs, it damaged him a lot, then I couldn’t breathe.
“The only hope they gave me was to look for a lung transplant,” he said. Toño Mauri in an interview with Time schedule Awaken America, where he assured that of the eight months he remained in hospital, four spent in a coma.
The businessman was also admitted in June last year, shortly after giving positive results for Covid-19, which worsened and he began to have trouble breathing.
“The first thing I thought about was my kids, Carla and my family. And I told the doctor it didn’t matter what I had to do. From there I don’t remember anything until I woke up from a coma, ” he said. Mauri.
Doctors told him he had to undergo double lung transplant surgery, which took place in Gainesville, Florida. Although she suffered internal bleeding during the procedure, she managed to get through.
“God was with me. He always said, “Lord, give me your hand, don’t let me go and come with me. “He accompanied me, I felt his presence and he gave me peace. After 10 days he told me they already had lungs.
“CARL (his wife) told me that I had internal bleeding, that they had talked to him and told him that he would not spend the night. And the next day they talked to him to tell him that I don’t know what happened, but that I’m normal. “
Moors He shared that his recovery will be gradual, as he is still unable to walk and is still rehabilitating from the tracheostomy that was done to be able to breathe.