Moving moment after amputation drama: suffering Kostomarov is back on the ice

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At the beginning of this year, Roman Kostomarow (46) fought for his life for weeks. The 2006 Olympic ice dancing champion developed pneumonia as a result of a corona infection. This led to blood poisoning and tissue death.

To save Kostomarov, doctors amputated his feet, right hand and parts of his left hand. And yet things didn’t go well at first. On the contrary. This was followed by several brain hemorrhages, brain swelling and two strokes. The doctors put the former top athlete into an artificial coma.

“The amputation was the beginning of the end,” his treating doctor told woman.ru at the time. “He had a complete system failure. Unfortunately, a natural process is now taking place. The body dies slowly.”

But miraculously Kostomarov survived. He woke up from his coma in mid-March. Despite the difficult fate, the Russian does not give up, he fights his way back to life step by step. When he emerged from the coma, he had to relearn things like chewing and eating and initially needed support when sitting.

Start exercising again

Shortly before Christmas he experiences the next miracle. “I was on the ice!” Kostomarov writes on Instagram in a video of him sliding across the ice for the first time since his fight for survival, still a little wobbly, but with a big grin on his face. This sport still means a lot to him 17 years after his retirement.

He shares the touching moment with his parents – and a camera team. This accompanies him on his path to life, Kostomarov reveals. The resulting documentary will premiere on March 8, about a year after he woke from his coma.

The progress Kostomarov has made in recent months is impressive. Not only did he learn to walk on his prosthetics, he also recently played tennis with Russian number 15 in the world, Karen Khachanow (27). And he did not let the fact that he could not hold the bat with the prosthesis, but had to strap it to it, stop him. (beer)

Source : Blick