It has not been an easy end of the year for journalist Cristina López Schlichting. The director of Weekend at COPE has returned to work after a very complicated month, and the last few weeks have been decisive, since one of her sons (she has two, Felipe and Ignacio, and a daughter, Inés) suffered from a serious accident that took him directly to the ICU of the La Princesa hospital in Madrid.
This is how the journalist wanted to tell it upon her return to the program, where she revealed everything she experienced with her son in recent weeks. “Five years ago death would have been inevitable. And there you see the magnificent human intelligence, a gift from God, in an exercise in acrobatics, imagining ways to steal from death what it wanted to take.”
The journalist recounted the hell she experienced through the airwaves, stating that she had never seen “a similar spectacle” in her life.
“Dozens of doctors fighting tooth and nail for a 32-year-old boy who was sentenced,” insists López Schlichting, who describes how the young man arrived at the hospital with multiple injuries: “Broken skull, bleeding in the liver, burst lungs, fractured hips. Five years ago death would have been inevitable.”
At 58 years old, the speaker thanks the efforts that the health workers have made to save her son’s life, and for all the care she has received in those very complicated moments in which she was torn between life and death. A few days in which her own life also stopped, without knowing what was going to happen.
“In front of the heart that stopped, the norepinephrine that forced it to start again. In front of the lungs that could not pull, a machine that extracted all the blood from the body through the femoral artery, oxygenated it and reintroduced it through the jugular And, at the same time, a team of strong traumatologists nailing and assembling an iron scaffolding to fix the bones that were falling apart,” says the announcer, excited.
The young man had broken bones, as his mother describes, and a swinging bed had to be placed on him to be able to move him. “An unthinkable acrobatics that stretched the broken lungs,” he lamented, adding that “his head could not be operated on and a probe was placed to measure intracranial pressure.” For the journalist, the “creativity” of the specialists was worthy of applause: “All the imagination in the world to take from the Grim Reaper what he was determined to take from us.”
From now on, after the worst, there is a long road to recovery. The speaker’s son has a complicated rehabilitation process ahead of him, but her mother is clear: she thanks the health workers who have made it possible for her to “see her son being born again.”
The journalist also took the opportunity to thank the numerous messages of support she has received throughout this time from her followers on social networks – the presenter has more than 23,200 on Instagram – and the radio listeners of her program. “Thank you, really, for so many prayers for my son.”
