Young man went to the doctor in the neck and ended up losing mobility in their limbs

With 24 years, Pedro Marqués had to face a complex diagnosis about his state of health when he heads to medical care for pain in at the walnut. The young man ended up losing mobility in his four limbs.

According to the information collected by the newspaper El Tiemp It was a consequence of his daily posture In your work.

The man was treated and subsequently discharged. However, after two days he had to return to the hospital, because the pain went from Your shoulder A WE WAITS.

Once in the medical center, Marqués’s body began to lose strength and increasingly responded. “When I called the nurse, I was standing and she asked me what was happening. Then I fell out of the chair and I didn’t feel anything. Neither pain nor the body. They stopped everything. Was conscious And terrified, ”said the young man, cited by the aforementioned newspaper.

The man was diagnosed with a hematoma epidural cervical espontáneo, A rather strange and uncommon condition that only affects a person among one million. This condition suggests bleeding that compresses the bone marrow of the patient. This tissue is in charge of connecting to the brain with the rest of the body.

A few days after being hospitalized, neurologist Gabriel Bortoli practiced Marquis a surgery to extract from hematoma 4.4 milliliters of blood. The specialist explained that this is “a very small amount of blood, but since it is a very sensitive and compact region, it ends up pushing the marrow against the bone wall of our column.”

On the cause of this diagnosis, the doctor said that “we did all the investigation and so far everything has been negative. This is compatible with what we have in medical literature, but as you improve, tests can be repeated. What we have at the beginning is that it is an idiopathic bleeding, that is, without a concrete cause, and in these cases the probability of recurrence is practically nil. ”

After being 85 days in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the young man was finally discharged. In the almost three months hospitalized, the man presented respiratory complications, so it had to be induced to a comma For nine days, according to the newspaper El Tiempo.

After his departure, Marqués is living with his parents and a sister in a house that the family had to adapt for the needs physical and medical of the young man. In addition, he started with therapies to work his mobility and go recovering little by little. You can move fingers and breathe on its own, without the help of a respirator.

“We work intensely with him, from sitting on bed, in a chair, walking down the street. It is a mental job, psychological and physical, And always reinforcing its respiratory appearance, which from the beginning was a success and we managed to get it out of the tracheotomy, ”said Gabriel Premital, physiotherapist of man.

One of the marquet motivations has been the unconditional support of his girlfriend throughout the medical process and in the recovery he has. Before having been diagnosed, he had planned ask for marriage To his partner, Ana Clara Dinardi.

“I talked to him in a coma, but I didn’t know if he was listening to me. Then I told him I hadn’t seen The ring Because I wanted me to give it to me. Suddenly, many tears began to get out of his eye and we both cried, ”said Ana Dinardi, in the aforementioned medium.

Pedro Marqués continues in his recovery process in the hope of recovering mobility in his four limbs and improving his quality of life. “I still can’t accept everything that happened, I cry a lot, I get angry, but I have a lot of support from my family, that helps me calm and understand what is happening. The videos have also helped me a lot. Thanks to the support of the people, today I am very good and quieter, ”said the young man.