Ashraf now he explains it with integrity, but three years ago it was a great shock for him, One Pantoja and his environment, because he found out point-blank the first time he wanted to enter survivors. The doctors, after the pertinent tests, denied him entry into that edition. The reason, a lung disease called Sarcoidosis.
This pathology is based on the growth of accumulations of inflammatory cells in the lungs, and may affect the eyes or other parts of the body, such as the kidneys, heart, or nervous system
“They saw that I had something strange in my lung, sarcoidosis. It is an inflammation of the lung ganglia. The doctor told me that this lung problem could make me blind and cause my death, but there are several stages and I was in stage 1 so most likely it would heal itself”, he recently explained in Lectures still with anguish despite having defeated the disease today.
“I have been very bad. They told me that it could be serious,” he explained, since they even spoke to him clearly that there were probabilities of mortality in the short term: “They told me that i could die in less than a year”.
And not long before his entry in this latest edition of survivors, after following the treatment and the guidelines of doctors specialized in Sarcoidosis, “They gave me the news that I had already been completely cured. Nothing unusual was seen in the tests.” A considerable scare for Ashraf but with a happy ending, which is what you have to keep…