We live every moment, every moment, without measuring time and consequences, we enjoy the moments and treasure the memories, life goes by so easy. And he walks every bullfighting afternoon, in every square, in every arena there is life, death and what we call miracles.
May God distribute luck; an expression full of faith, hope, triumph, life, just like one of the many rituals in a bullfighting afternoon; the lottery of the bulls which is celebrated on the same afternoon as the bullfight; For God to repair luck is to put life in divine hands.
Different times and moments, What would a matador, a bullfighter and the arena of Mérida, that of the Yucatán have in common, beyond an afternoon of bullfighting, there will be something that unites them; The story of Rafael Gil Rafaelillo y Jorge Carlos May Ornelasa life story, a story of rebirth.
An encounter with a taste of life, stories, beyond medical science, stories that only faith and miracles allow us to discover, simply with life itself, without further delay.
It was a May 15th 1977, Rafael Gil Rafaelilloarrived that afternoon at the Coso de Reforma with blood from his native Tijuana“I literally saw my life go by, to the point of total darkness”, This is how Rafaelillo himself expressed it, when he came out alive in the meeting with an “affectionate” bull from Santo Domingo who split the femur and saphenous vein
“Bull’s horn wound in the Triangle of Scarpa with a posterosuperior direction of ten centimeters which destroyed the femoral artery, severing it completely, with loss of substance of about six centimeters. Prognosis: very serious.
The doctors added that they introduced gauze into the arena and pressed it hard to contain the bleeding and confirmed that the cardiac arrest lasted between one minute and one and a half minutes.
“I died in Mérida and returned to live with the blood of the Yucatecans. And by the hand of Dr. Sauma ”.
Thus life and the encounter with death are fragile, without warnings. The last gypsy of the party, he had the opportunity to continue in the walking arenas, to continue to leave, in addition to his legacy as a bullfighter, a chronicle of life.
In the year 2017, a Sunday afternoon with bulls on the 29th, marked the life of Jorge Carlos May Ornelasretired bullfighter from the Plaza Mérida.
Poet of Cattle Hajjhe literally wrote a story of life and the encounter with death.
I remember the afternoon of the twenty-ninth of January two thousand and seventeen, the longest five minutes of my life, the five minutes at the mercy of “Poeta”, number eleven of the 515kg Xajay herd “
“That bull was already very locked up. They load that bull into the enclosures of Plaza México, he hasn’t left the ranch and he already knew how to break down the doors to get out and that’s how it all started.
Fact happened in the pens; Jorge he just wanted to help and it happened “Poet” It goes straight and empitonic in the burladero and gets me out of there … five gores, one broke my chest and touched my lung and it was inches from breaking my heart, another step millimeters from the femur
After a long wait, Doctor Luis Alberto Navarrete Jaimes appears; It’s a miracle. He saved his life. ”
The Mérida square witness, of the life of the Last Gypsy y Maythat in paths that only the bullfight united them in destiny in a story of faith and miracles, bullfighter and bullfighter fought their lives in a square, one in the arena and the other in the enclosures, attacked by a bull that marked life of each similar form; Thoughtful y Poet They showed the tragedy of death and the miracle of life in an arena.
A meeting of life, of rebirth, Raffaello y Jorge they have lived without knowing that destiny would have united them in a story, they have lived through different and distant times and circumstances, perhaps at one point without knowing the existence of the other, and years and circumstances make destiny unite them
On Sunday, October 23, Plaza Mérida brings them together again and places them in a place where life has given them a second chance, the place where the miracle happened, and in a brotherly embrace of life, they both agree to say : God spread luck.
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