Jordi González reveals he was close to death: "I was in a coma for three weeks."
The journalist fell ill during a vacation in Colombia and had to be urgently admitted.
BarcelonaSince a few months ago Jordi González disappeared from TVE, where he presented the program D HeartThere had been much speculation about his health. This Wednesday, the journalist broke the silence through an interview in the magazine Week in which he revealed that he has seen death up close. The Catalan presenter wanted to explain the medical ordeal he has endured in the last five months: three weeks in a coma and two months in the ICU. "I was close to dying," admits González, who is now in the recovery phase. "They told my family to be notified twice so they could say goodbye to me," he adds.
As González explained, it all started when he went on vacation to Colombia. The journalist has an apartment in Medellín and his intention was to spend a few days there. Soon after, he began to feel ill and what he began to feel ill and what he began to feel ill. I was going on vacation to Colombia on Three Kings' Day and on January 10, I began to have trouble breathing. I was very worried, because I'm not so fat or so big that I can't walk up a street in a row. The world on RAC1.
The presenter explained that the cause of his health problems was a bacteria that doctors initially couldn't identify. Faced with this situation, doctors decided to induce a coma, which he remained in for three weeks. When they finally found a way to treat the infection, they woke him up from his coma, but the medical journey wasn't over. "I spent another month in the hospital because they had to operate on my lung to remove all the filth that had accumulated there," he added. González explained that he returned home a month and a half ago and took the opportunity to recognize the Colombian healthcare system.
The journalist revealed that the illness he had, bilateral bronchopneumonia, has a 30% survival rate. "I'm cured. I've lost 10 kilos, but it feels like I've looked 10 years younger. Now I feel like I want to do everything. I want to live longer and reorder priorities, because I had a hard time saying no to some things," González confessed. Currently, the journalist continues his recovery and says that one of his dreams is to get back to running and cycling, two things he can't do yet. Regarding his professional future, he announced that he won't return to television until September, although he still doesn't know what project he'll be doing.