Author Topic: José Enrique recovering from brain tumour after major surgery. (Read 8126 times)

TepidT2O · « **on:** June 23, 2018, 09:14:24 am »

Perhaps we could send some love to him @Jesanchez3. This is an horrific story for the poor guy

Thought it was worth ganjnf this in the main football forum

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There are times when life has unexpected situations in store for you. And when they arrive you have to know how to face them with strength, integrity and perspective. José Enrique , a former Spanish footballer from Liverpool, had to play one of the most important games of his life. And he had to do it outside of a football field. A little over a month ago they told him that he had a tumor on his head. For a healthy person, elite athlete and player in one of the most successful clubs in Europe, the blow is tremendous.José Enrique hung up his boots in September 2017 after playing his last year at Zaragoza, but remained linked to this sport. He joined the representation agency that his brother has and since the end of last year he was steeped in the trade. Precisely in one of the trips to meet he found the most bitter chapter of his life.

"We were meeting with Chris Hughton, coach of the Brighton that I had during my time at Newcastle, and that night I was beginning to get annoyed, I arrived at the hotel and thought they were migraines." During the night I had a brutal headache. the next morning I started to see blurry, then I started to see double, I had my eyes open and I saw double, I had to go to the emergency room and after nine hours there I had a CT scan They see me neurologists The test indicated that I had a vein in the I was sent to St. George's Hospital in London immediately, specialized in Neurology, I spend two nights there, " José Enrique tells MARCA .After the preoccupation of the first days, a doctor informs to the one that was soccer player of the Liverpool that still they do not know what it really suffers. Finally, a neurosurgeon informs José Enrique and his family that he has a chordoma, a rare type of tumor . "It is a tumor located in a complicated area of the head, it is very rare, it is not very usual, it was located behind the eye, that is why I now wear a patch", he reveals.

"They even told me I had options to run out of vision"
José Enrique, former Liverpool soccer player
José Enrique is given the option to have surgery in England or to do it in the Valencian Community, in the Hospital La Fe. He, who is from Valencia, does not doubt it and decides to intervene surrounded by his family and his friends. "It was a complex surgery, Dr. Simal and his team operated on me last week, I went into the operating room at 9 in the morning and I left at 6 in the afternoon, the tumor was stuck to the artery and it was a complicated intervention," José Enrique recalls that he wanted to thank the health professionals for their work: "They did an exceptional job, I was in the ICU for 24 hours and I am very grateful to the work of Dr. Simal and his medical team." They were the worst days of my life I stayed in bed for five days without moving. "Radiation therapy in Zurich or ParisAlthough he has been at home for a few days, José Enrique still has months ahead of recovery. "All this makes values more life, soccer players live in a bubble, it's an unreal life, you lose yourself and you think you're invincible." When you play soccer, your head does not check it, "he says.Now he has to comply with a series of guidelines so that everything continues as before. "I can not lift weight, I can not bend, I have the bed adapted to sleep in a position of 30 degrees so that I do not raise the blood pressure of my head ..."
"The football player's life is unreal, you have to value things"

On July 26 he will visit the doctor again and will have to start receiving radiotherapy. " There are only four machines in Europe . My options are to go to Zurich or Paris. I have to receive 35 sessions. I'll be about month and a half off, but that's not important. I want to get well. I came to say that there were options to stay blind, then I regained my vision and even the doctors were surprised . "Support from his girlfriend and her familyJosé Enrique, who also had to learn to walk again after the operation, lost about six kilos in a single week. It is expected that by the end of September he will recover his normal life again. "I want to thank my girlfriend, my parents and my brothers, as well as Dr. Simal, his team and La Fe hospital," says José Enrique.
I want to thank you for being there to my girlfriend, my parents, my brothers to Dr. Simal, to all his team and to La Fe hospital "

The ex-Liverpool has also received the support and affection of colleagues and footballers who are now in the World Cup in Russia. From the different concentrations of their teams, Coutinho, Luis Suarez, Keylor Navas, Reina, Dybala or Fazio wanted to be close to the Spanish and also thank the medical services for the care they have given their friend.

The drink that José Enrique has had to pass through makes him value what he has even more and he wants to send the message that with attitude and being positive you can get out of a bad situation. You can fill Anfield with 55,000 people in the stands, but the most important thing is to be surrounded by good people and know how to enjoy life at every moment.

Chig · « **Reply #1 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:17:24 am »

Get well soon José. Y.N.W.A.

Gerry Attrick · « **Reply #2 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:17:56 am »

Best wishes, Jose.

planet-terror · « **Reply #3 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:18:19 am »

Dreadful. Good luck Jose

Nitramdorf · « **Reply #4 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:23:33 am »

Good luck Jose.

moondog · « **Reply #5 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:25:47 am »

Get well soon Jose lad.

vivabobbygraham · « **Reply #6 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:26:39 am »

Go 'ed, Jose. Whup that motherfuckers ass

Lazy Gun · « **Reply #7 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:31:44 am »

Get well soon Jose. We are pulling for you

robgomm · « **Reply #8 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:36:32 am »

Wow, that's horrible and so scary. Wish him all the very best.

Chalky Boots · « **Reply #9 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:39:59 am »

Shocked to hear about it and wish him a speedy recovery. He's always appeared good lad and at only 32 it's something you shouldn't have to go through.

Tesco tearaway · « **Reply #10 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:43:58 am »

Hope it all turns out well José; Good luck fella

sms1986 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:45:52 am »

Good luck Jose, I hope you make a quick and full recovery!

Crosby Nick · « **Reply #12 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:49:33 am »

Get well soon José.

Rush 82 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:51:33 am »

Good luck.

That's a bastard to deal with - mate of mine survived the same.

Not an easy road.

redgriffin73 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:51:47 am »

Just saw this on Instagram, awful news, hope he recovers soon.

Alonso_The_Assassin · « **Reply #15 on:** June 23, 2018, 09:58:43 am »

Best wishes, Jose. Thoughts are with you.

YNWA.

JURGENKLOPP · « **Reply #16 on:** June 23, 2018, 10:00:36 am »

Que te mejores pronto, Jose!

reddav72 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 23, 2018, 10:02:26 am »

best wishes to jose and your family,
YNWA

daggerdoo · « **Reply #18 on:** June 23, 2018, 10:17:26 am »

All the best Jose YNWA

CHOPPER · « **Reply #19 on:** June 23, 2018, 10:19:18 am »

Sad to hear. Get well soon Jose with the squiggle above the e.

El Lobo · « **Reply #20 on:** June 23, 2018, 10:19:43 am »

Get well soon lad

Runehammer · « **Reply #21 on:** June 23, 2018, 10:22:45 am »

Best wishes for a speedy recovery Jose. YNWA

scouse neapolitan · « **Reply #22 on:** June 23, 2018, 10:57:36 am »

Get well Jose. Great lad! You're in all of our thoughts.
YNWA

Bobinhood · « **Reply #23 on:** June 23, 2018, 11:04:34 am »

Good Luck Jose.

redtel · « **Reply #24 on:** June 23, 2018, 11:04:40 am »

This is a very difficult tumour to deal with. My father had it late in life and his sight went then came back more than once.

Get well soon Jose and I hope you make a full recovery.

rocco · « **Reply #25 on:** June 23, 2018, 11:06:36 am »

Just seen the news on instagram, best wishes getting better .

redalways · « **Reply #26 on:** June 23, 2018, 11:30:23 am »

Jose Enrique worked hard for this club I wish him all the best and hope for a speedy recovery. Once a red always a red.

jillcwhomever · « **Reply #27 on:** June 23, 2018, 11:48:07 am »

What awful news, all the best Jose hope you make a full recovery.

Eeyore · « **Reply #28 on:** June 23, 2018, 12:20:51 pm »

Get well soon lad.

SteveLFC · « **Reply #29 on:** June 23, 2018, 12:43:41 pm »

Get well soon Jose YNWA!

deFacto please, you bastards · « **Reply #30 on:** June 23, 2018, 12:51:48 pm »

fecking hell, get well soon Jose lad, wish you all the very best

TheShanklyGates · « **Reply #31 on:** June 23, 2018, 12:59:10 pm »

Wish him a full and speedy recovery.

PoetryInMotion · « **Reply #32 on:** June 23, 2018, 01:14:34 pm »

Oh my! Shocked to hear this. Hope he's able to get through this and recover in the best possible way.

Djimi Smicer34 · « **Reply #33 on:** June 23, 2018, 01:21:41 pm »

Get well soon Jose, best wishes for a full and fast recovery!

Bolrick · « **Reply #34 on:** June 23, 2018, 01:42:51 pm »

get well soon.

RyanBabel19 · « **Reply #35 on:** June 23, 2018, 01:44:01 pm »

That's awful and must have been terrifying to go through

Credit to those who looked after him in the hospital and carried out the surgery, sounds incredibly complex and its amazing things like this can be done

Get well soon José, hope he has a speedy recovery

cowtownred · « **Reply #36 on:** June 23, 2018, 01:50:56 pm »

Best wishes for a full recovery Jose.

Gnurglan · « **Reply #37 on:** June 23, 2018, 01:55:38 pm »

Get well, Jose!
I know technology is getting better and better in this field. Hopefully it's good enough to beat the disease. For Jose and others.

Tega · « **Reply #38 on:** June 23, 2018, 01:57:09 pm »

Get well soon Jose ... YNWA

dirks digglers · « **Reply #39 on:** June 23, 2018, 02:05:13 pm »

All the best for a full recovery. YNWA.