Figure skater Roman Kostomarov stays in the hospital and prepares to make prosthetics. According to this TASS According to an informed source, the athlete is in a normal mood and is undergoing rehab after preparing for surgery.
“He is in a good mood. Now Roman is entering rehab after all preparatory measures for the prosthesis, he will begin in two to three weeks,” he said.
– said the source.
It is not yet known how long Kostomarov will have to spend in the hospital. Rehabilitation specialist Konstantin Ternovoy also said that the process of getting used to prostheses will take a long time.
“In a few years, Roman will get used to it and change his prostheses to suit his lifestyle. He will spend a lot of time with prosthetists.
But so far, he is still far from it. Now we need to get rid of all the consequences of infections in the body.
He will then wear a simple mechanical prosthesis, and then a bionic prosthesis. It’s a very long process, but modern technology can allow it to run, jump and slide,” Ternovoy said. sports24.
It became known on January 10 that Kostomarov was hospitalized. The skater, who was taken to the intensive care unit due to severe pneumonia, received ECMO treatment and remained on a ventilator for a long time. On May 8, Kostomarov first got in touch with his fans by posting a post on a social network.
Roman receives words of support from friends and fans during his hospital stay. In honor of Russia Day, on the eve of his wife Tatyana Navka, with whom she won a gold medal at the Turin Olympics, published Photo with Roman as he receives the coveted Olympic gold medals. He maintains communication with Kostomarov and reported that in April the skater personally celebrated his birthday.
However, there are also those who are skeptical of Kostomarov’s situation. Paralympic, wheelchair fencing world champion Roman Fedyaev admitted that he had no sympathy for the skater, because, according to him, Kostomarov provoked a serious course of the disease when he climbed to swim in the pit. It should be noted that the information that the athlete bathed in icy water appeared in the media in the first days after his hospitalization, but was not confirmed and subsequently denied. Fedyaev also said that the first two or three years will be very difficult for Kostomarov.
“When I learned this, I immediately said: every action has consequences. Do not jump into ice water if you are sick. He paid a heavy price for his actions. No one forced him to dive into the hole.
His story does not arouse much sympathy for me, I have been using prostheses for ten years already, my friends are walking with prosthetics, I know how easy and peaceful it is to live with prosthetics.
I am in constant contact with such people, they connect me to the military medical academy, we go to the guys returning from Ukraine. I teach them for an hour and a half, I tell them what to do, how to learn to walk again, where it is better to have prosthetics. I explain that the first two or three years are hell to endure. The main thing is patience.
I can tell right away that it will hurt a lot. But if you endure all this, then the problems will disappear, the skin and blood vessels will be rebuilt, life will become better. Because even with the worst prosthetics, life is much more interesting than with the best crutches, ”says Fedyaev NEWS.ru.