Enrica Bonaccorti underwent emergency open heart surgery: “Two more months and I would have died,” she reveals in a long post on Facebook. “One day in early July I started feeling terrible itching all over, my whole body turned bright red in places, I looked like the burnt little girl who ran away from Hiroshima. I hadn’t changed anything in my diet or medication. “I hadn’t taken any sun, in short, my body was just screaming that something was wrong,” says the actress and presenter, tracing the stages of the story.
“There’s something wrong with the heart.”
“Of course, I had a thorough examination by a doctor, who found a stone in a kidney (which, by the way, has never caused me pain). However, they decide to intervene, after all it is a banal operation, but the cardiologists, Prof Leo, Prof. Saglia and Prof. Giulio Speciale arrive together with Dr. Quintarelli come to me the next day with a dark face and tell me that there is something wrong with the heart, a CT scan is needed and then a coronary angiography. They find that my arteries are all blocked. I could leave in a few months,” he explains in the statement.
“Use my experience”
Doctors “think about stents first, but they are not enough. We need 4 bypasses that remove veins from the legs to reconstruct an alternative route that brings blood flow to the heart. It will be open-heart surgery, which took a total of eight hours. Moral of the story: They told me that I was very lucky, an accidental discovery that saved my life. Bonaccorti concludes his long post with a warning from: “Use my experience, control yourself as best you can, hope.” Above all, may you have the same luck as me! I can’t wait to see you again! I hope soon.”
