Who is Juan Pablo Medina, the actor who lost a leg and will go to the Paralympic Games?

Juan Pablo Medina it’s a Mexican actor known in the country for his role in La Casa de las Flores, which recently went viral because he will attend the Paris 2024 Paralympic Gamesbut not as an athlete, which is what has been said in social networks.

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Will Juan Pablo Medina be an athlete at the Paralympic Games?

The actor himself said that he will attend the Paralympic Games but as an ambassador for a brand of sports prostheticsThis is because they have supported him in his recovery process since he lost his right leg.

The collaboration has the support of the athlete Heinrich Popow, gold medalist in London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016. The actor’s goal is to promote solidarity and support for those who have experienced situations like theirs.

How did Juan Pablo Medina lose his leg?

In July 2021, Juan Pablo Medina arrived at the hospital unexpectedly and had his leg amputated. The medical reason for this was a venous thrombosis.

“I was on a recording, I was doing a very important project for me, where I had everything in place. That day we went down to eat, We were in a hotel recording, I went up to the room and I was starting to feel kind of bad,” he said on the Cracks podcast.

The doctor injected Juan Pablo so that he would recover but the pain continued, so they did tests and there they discovered the thrombosis (a formation of clots affecting the intestine).

“At that moment I wasn’t thinking about myself, I was saying: ‘I can’t leave work. I was dizzy and my stomach hurt like crazy and when I came in, They took me to the emergency room. It’s a bit blurry: they went down to do tests, and after that, blackout. I have an image of one of the doctors saying to me: ‘I’m going to do everything to save your leg.’ “I found out it was three days later,” he said.