He says it straight away: “I was a real foodie and I didn’t pay enough attention. And with all the trouble that the doctors took to save me, I will never gain a single kilo! Gabriel Jelocha-Cenec, 49, was too young to die. But the Covid-19 fell on him, as much as on his 180 kilogram carcass … He knows it, in his condition, he was rather a loser. “I lost 80! I was really hot, you know and I haven’t finished with this virus yet. ”Hospitalized on the evening of April 28, the Mondelangeois is now taken care of at Bel-Air Thionville. A long rehabilitation began, since 1is last july.
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His mother died on 1is May
“I truly believe that I am a miracle. I had a coma for 45 days after being hospitalized in April. I was immediately transferred to Nancy-Brabois because I couldn’t breathe. Horror of the situation: his own mother, with whom he lived, will herself be taken to the hospital that evening. “I haven’t seen her again. She died on 1is may. She was only 76 years old. I hope that where she is, she is happy to see that I survived. With my father, my brother, everyone told me that I had to pay attention to my weight, so as not to make matters worse, I did not listen enough. “
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Two infarcts during coma
The doctors had however prepared the family for a second imminent death, of the son after the mother. Because in addition to totally obstructed bronchi, a difficult coma, the Mondelangeois will have two heart attacks during his artificial sleep. “I even remember the voices of doctors, nurses! And every hour, delicate gestures to turn around. I think I even saw the devil among all the images that crossed my dreams. You have to believe that my time had not come. He said, however, to have pulled him a little by the tail, the one who had taken on the appearance of a cat during his 45 days of absence. “I was not careful enough. I lived with my parents, although they were old, and I didn’t pay attention ”
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“I should have been more careful”
Wearing a mask is his most striking example. “I took it off sometimes, when I was in a supermarket. I think that’s where I caught the virus. It was really irresponsible when my father is 81 himself. He was very lucky. But after what I experienced: coma, resuscitation, intensive care, cardiac rebound, rehabilitation since August 28 … I also woke up with a cannula in my neck, I could no longer speak! Life has just taught me a lesson and even if the rest is still difficult, I’m hanging on ”Drum major within the association he created, the UTMM, Gabriel is impatiently waiting to find his cash register. His best way to exist, to live.
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