Gilbert Delorme experienced quite a scare. Victim of a stroke on January 12, the former Canadian player and now a media personality is recovering better and he should come out of it without serious consequences.
Delorme, 59, had begun to feel discomfort the day before at his winter home in Florida.
“I was sitting and having dinner with my wife, daughter and granddaughter when I started to feel all dizzy, unbalanced and confused. I even vomited. My daughter is a police officer and my wife, a former nurse, so it didn’t take five minutes to get to the hospital! I had several tests and the doctor’s first diagnosis was that due to my athletic background and the osteoarthritis I have in my neck, I probably had a pinched nerve. They didn’t see any clots, nothing,” he told the NewspaperWednesday.
Relieved, he returns to sleep at home in the evening. The next day, tired, he hosts the show as usual sports in the morning at 91.9 Sports then, after dinner, decides to go take a nap.
“When I got up, I was no longer able to close my left eye and my mouth was crooked on the same side. I took in water and it came in on the right and came out on the left. »
Like the day before, his wife Diane and his daughter do neither one nor two: direction the hospital.
TESTS AND PANIC
He is then welcomed by the same doctor as the day before. The latter then believed in Bell’s facial palsy, a type of facial paralysis. He still decides to give her another scan.
“When I saw him walk into the office after that, I knew he didn’t have good news for me. He then tells me that I had a stroke and that I have blood lodged in the back of my brain. This is where it starts spinning in my head. I start thinking about Adonis Stevenson, Ralph Racine, all those guys. »
A magnetic resonance imaging test confirmed the diagnosis and he was immediately transferred to another hospital.
IT’S GETTING BETTER
The result, however, is positive. Besides three days, during which the blood accumulated behind his brain had to drain naturally, making him “live through hell”, his condition has since improved so much that he was discharged from the hospital last Sunday.
According to the latest news, there should be no long-term consequences. A fan of training, he should even be able to start again in a moderate way soon.
“I think being in good physical condition helped me get through it. I saw people in very bad shape on the floor where I was, ”he reveals.
Besides, he wanted us to specify one thing in this paper: “People who think it’s because of the COVID vaccine, stop it. You look like a bunch of pies! My last vaccine, I had it in June. That’s a bit of an ostie. Must stop. »
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