In training last Thursday afternoon, Diego Rivas Lugo goalkeeper began to feel ill. He finished with a strong chest pain and fever had gone. Far from improving, the symptoms grew worse at home, where he was alone. He suffered an acute asthma attack and began to breathe increasing costs. So much so that about one in the morning decided to get behind the wheel, the way to hospital. There it remained until half past eight pm on Friday. Two days later, past and moments of anguish, short and dressed defended his team’s goal in the victory against Conquense.
“They said they had gathered a respiratory infection with an asthma attack. And when I got to the hospital, he had justito the level of oxygen in the blood, “he recalls. The worst, the shortness of breath, unable to fill the lungs with the precious air. A situation that, despite being an asthmatic, had never lived. “I’d never experienced anything like,” he admits.
In the emergency treatment given appropriate “nebulization” equivalent to “about twenty shots” of their usual inhaler. In addition, they put oxygen, injected serum, antibiotics, bronchodilators …
One day on a stretcher
He spent the night and day on a stretcher, which was visited by the doctor of Lugo, Luis Chur, of their families, and recovered from the shock, and his companions, who affectionately reproached not having notified the moment. “Forget it. You do not want to bother anyone. Then you go round, and if the situation were reversed, I would tell, “she says, grateful, after all in the club’s attention away from him.
And of course, with him in precarious, and the other keeper of the workforce, Escalona, ??recovering from an injury, there was the dilemma: Who would play on Sunday? “The decision was not made until late-recognized Diego. On game day we did a check in the morning, and we believe if there is any risk of the re-close the bronchi. And the doctors opened his hand to sport. ” We are very grateful to who attended the emergency department, Fernando Peña.
Of course, everything had to adapt treatment to the anti-doping rules.
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