“He is already sitting on the bed himself”: new details about the condition of Roman Kostomarov were reported in the hospital 04.14.2023, 13:50

The Olympic champion went through a critical period in his life. He suffered amputations of his legs, lower legs and hands. The athlete was able to overcome depression and is now ready to recover quickly. Kostomarov began to move actively in the intensive care unit in Kommunarka.

“Roman continues to recover his muscles and is now able to sit up in bed without assistance. The organs are fine, there is no temperature, “said a TASS source at the clinic today.

For three months, the doctors admitted only his wife Oksana Domninová to the intensive care unit of the famous patient. This week, the skater began visiting his children – daughter Anastasia and son Ilya.

Kostomarov fell ill during the New Year’s show. He played one of the main roles in Ilya Averbuch’s ice show “The Wizard of Oz” and also performed on outdoor ice rinks as part of the “Winter in the Moscow Region” project. The lieutenant colonel of the medical service, sports doctor Alexander Yablunovsky named the factors that weakened Roman’s immunity and led to the fact that the skater fell ill with severe pneumonia with complications, and subsequently blood poisoning and gangrene, which led to the amputation of part of the limb.

“For athletes, it is primarily overwork and insufficient time regeneration, as well as a lack of vitamins, minerals and nutrients,” explained Yablunovsky. “Experience shows that an athlete at the peak of their form always has a higher risk of getting sick.”

The medical officer also commented on the information that the long-time participant of the ice age was found to have the flu virus or coronavirus, and this dealt a severe blow to his body. According to him, some viruses are constantly in the human body and can only appear when the immune system is weakened.

“You can get an infection that doesn’t normally occur in a healthy person. For example, the coronavirus. This means that normally this bacterial or viral infection should not be present in the body. And in other cases, we are carriers of these viruses. And now we will carry the coronavirus. It will sit quietly in the body of people with good immunity. Viruses are just waiting for our immune system to weaken for some reason, and they are activated, they start multiplying,” Alexander told the KP Sport website.