“He is improving, obviously an operation on the cervical is delicate but it is going very well. They have already taken his oxygen, he is already moving his whole head, the other day he already moved one foot and he is recovering little by little,” he assured this Friday to EFE his grandson Alex Fernández.
Likewise, the eldest son of the family, Vicente Fernández Jr., confirmed in the last hours in an American program that his father suffered from Guillain-Barré syndrome and that he had already been in treatment since last August 13 to prevent his advance.
Fortunately, it was detected very early, it already has treatment and it will be a treatment with a slow response, as the doctors said.
According to his son, the detected disease is not related to the fall suffered by the Charro de Huentitán on his ranch that led him to hospitalization.
Fernández arrived a couple of weeks ago at a private hospital in the city of Guadalajara, after suffering a fall that caused a blow to the cervicals near the skull, injuring his spinal cord and leaving him without movement of his arms and legs.
Because of this, the singer had to undergo emergency surgery That caused him a respiratory deterioration and therefore he had to be connected to artificial respiration and consequently completely sedated to facilitate his recovery.
Before his arrival at the hospital in early August, the singer of “These jealousy” had been hospitalized for a severe urinary infection that kept him in the hospital for two days.
Throughout his life, Fernández has overcome various diseases , such as prostate cancer in 2002, the removal of a tumor in the liver in 2012, a year later a thrombosis that caused him to lose his voice and surgery to remove abdominal hernias in 2015.
What is Guillain-Barré syndrome
The syndrome suffered by the singer is a condition in which the immune system attacks the nerves, the symptoms range from weakness and tingling in the lower extremities and can lead to paralysis.