Fernando Ruiz Díaz’s comeback after suffering a stroke: “What happened to me was very brave”

Days ago, a statement from the official account of Catupecu Machu alerted fans and the entire music world about the health of Fernando Ruiz Díaz, who suffered a stroke. Now, the singer recorded a video in gratitude to the doctors who treated him at the Hospital de Clínicas and all the people who cared about him and told some details of what happened to him. Back home, and with an outpatient discharge, the band’s frontman spoke to his fans and said: “It’s not that I’m discharged. I have been discharged from the hospital to go home, the medical discharge will come later, I have a great recovery. I didn’t know it was as heavy as it was“, he began by saying about the health problem he had days ago. He continued: “It was very brave what happened to me, it’s impressive, I just have to recover my balance but, nothing, it was a very strong stroke, or cerebral infarction or ischemic infarction. I have a little thing in my heart that I have to operate on later and I’m grateful.”, he said and reiterated: “What I want to be grateful for is love. The love I felt around my blood family and my chosen family,” he said, while also extending it to all the medical staff who treated him at the Hospital de Clínicas, for whom he had words of great gratitude. “They saved me,” He expressed the value of public health and the importance of the professionals who work in it. “I was in the best place, with the best and they saved me. They grabbed me in time and gave me love. Now I have a long road to recovery.”Held. While he joked, “Miracles do exist and I’m a walking miracle. You can see that they didn’t want me upstairs. It is a lie that life is short, life is very long, very long. Because I can’t believe I lived these 55 years and I was born again and now I have a beautiful road ahead of me,” he said. And he recalled: “Just like when I was having a stroke, a cerebral infarction, I would pray to Guadalupe and tell her: ‘No, I want to get there, Lila is.’ The only thing that mattered to me was Lila and the music, finishing the album, and I didn’t suffer for myself, I suffered because I know that many people love me and that they were going to suffer a lot. So thank you very much, I only have words of gratitude,” Fernando closed after 7 days in hospital. 

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