Patricia Pérez recounts, through tears, the terrible illness that her husband suffers: “He is no longer the same person”

A few days ago, Patricia Perez She told her Instagram followers about the illness her husband is going through, Luis Canut: “Luis has been sick since March of last year.” This businessman suffers from cryptococcal meningoencephalitis, an infection in the brain caused by an inhaled yeast that comes from pigeon droppings. This Thursday, the presenter gave new details in TardeAR and she couldn't hold back her tears: “It was horrible.”

Patricia has confessed that her husband is “much better”, although he has lost the vision in one eye and his sense of taste and smell: “Now he's fine, although he's not the same person,” the presenter explained via video call.

Pérez explained to Ana Rosa that since her husband was admitted to the hospital, she has been by his side “at all times”: “The contagion occurred by inhalation of a yeast that is in the feces of many birds. Something that doesn't usually happen, but sometimes you can breathe it and cross the basic barriers,” he commented.

Alaskaa friend of the couple, has assured that Luis's process has been harder than Patricia implied: “Luis started having very bad headaches in March. We go to the emergency room and They tell him it's a tension headache due to stress. We leave the emergency room, we go home with the prescribed medication and, about four hours later, he tells me that his head still hurts, but that it hurts more, and we return to the emergency room,” he said. “They perform a lumbar puncture on him. and Totally pathological cerebrospinal fluid comes out. The days go by and in short: he has cryptococcal meningitis, that is, he has an infection in the brain due to a yeast,” he explained.

Luis has lost complete sight in one eye and frontal sight in the other: “Now he walks, but he had to go out in a wheelchair, without any stability and he weighed 52 kilos. He lost his mind completely, now luckily he is him, but Yes, he lost his short-term memory, hey… anyway.” Even so, the presenter wanted to make it clear that Luis is “better” and that he is in the process of “recovery”: “He is already much better. I hope you can see him soon,” she concluded.

Your love story

Patricia and Luis met in 2005. Two years later, on September 29, 2007, they celebrated their wedding in Pontevedra. A wedding that attracted media attention and was attended by well-known faces such as Rapahel, Amelia Bono and Manuel Martos. In 2020 we saw how the couple dressed up in their ceremonial suits again to celebrate the love that united them. However, they have no children; a topic on which Patricia spoke loud and clear in the past: “No, we are not considering having one child or two. We have not considered it and we do not have it. I have tried many times, I have not been able to have it at once. naturally and when science has allowed it, it has given me reservations,” he confessed in a statement to Europa Press.