The doctor of Diego
Maradona, Leopold
Luque, said Tuesday that the former soccer player's health status “is good” and announced the possibility that he may be transferred to a house “with all the care he needs” to continue his recovery.
“It is something that we are still discussing with the family, everything goes in a line like a house with the care that he needs. It is practically resolved, but I do not want to confirm it yet,” he said. Luque in dialogue with Radio
the
Net, and added that “one of the strongest ideas” is to move the '10' to a house in the town of Nordelta.
Maradona He was admitted on Monday of last week for anemia, dehydration and with a “low mood”, but when performing checkups he was diagnosed with a subdural hematoma and the next day he underwent surgery, and to date he continues his recovery in a local clinic of Olivos.
Your psychologist, Carlos
Diaz, he attended to the press that stands guard in front of the clinic where the 'Fluff'and affirmed that in this instance the accompaniment of the family is essential.
“The most important thing at this time, beyond medical supervision, is to have the family present permanently, with the family, with the children, who are completely in agreement with what we are proposing, permanently accompanying their dad and eager to get ahead, “he declared.
The most important thing is to have the family permanently
Likewise, he indicated that “when one speaks of a problematic consumption it is much more complex than what is proposed”, and in that sense “the most important thing is that the patient has the will to change”.
The doctor Luque He referred to the “principle of autonomy” of the patient and said that Maradona At first he did not want to stay in the clinic, although now his posture softened.
“In the postoperative period Diego goes for a walk with me, the next day inside the sanatorium, and I told him 'Diego, you have to stay' and Diego started 'no, no, no', and he became aggressive in the sense of wanting to handle him as he always handles everything. (…) Diego today is a person who looks at me with great logic and says' Luque, what am I doing here? He is not the Diego who wants to go violent, “he added.
Before entering, they observed in the ex-footballer “strange things in his personality”, such as great confusion.
“Some strange things in his personality began to draw attention, such as his mood, and this being confused, out there he issued a comment or an answer of something that had not been asked, it is a cognitive disorder that he should not have. be happening, “added the doctor, and pointed out that before that picture they thought that” it was a good time to take it and study it a little. “
There is a cognitive disorder that should not be happening
The doctors interpreted these symptoms as a “withdrawal” from alcohol, and not drugs, a problem that accompanied him for several years and now “is treated.”
“Solved those issues (drug addiction) are never, but are dealt with. In the last time it was to have a drink and hurt him because of the antecedents. Then the point is that that drink out there needed it, but it is not a great consumer, it happens that it is a whole picture with the drugs he takes, “he added.
Luque noted that Maradona He takes drugs for various pathologies and to correct his sleep problems, although he considers that his situation does not correspond to “a picture of addiction.”
“In principle I do not judge it as an addiction picture, he is a patient who lives in extremes, that when he wants to, he will stop doing what makes him bad, I have no doubt, he still cannot convince him to stop to do that, “he concluded.