In July 2021, the life of John Paul Medinawho was about to die and was hospitalized in an emergency, however, little was known about what led him to be in that situation, and now it has been the actor himself who has revealed the signs that ignored that day that suffered a heart attack and lost his leg.
During a talk on the ‘Cracks’ podcast, John Paul Medina revealed that he was in the middle of recording the series “Prime Time” and his health problems began with severe pain in his stomach and leg, but believing that it was nothing serious, he asked to be medicated so that he could continue working .
“That day we went down to eat, we were in a hotel recording. When I went up to the room I was feeling kind of bad, but I had to go to the set. So I spoke to the doctor and told him ‘inject me with something for the pain.’ The belly began to hurt very cab&%$ and the leg, it was like ‘what’s happening?’”, said Juan Pablo Medina.
The actor mentioned that after a few minutes, the discomfort did not go away and worsened, so when he did not show up on the filming set, the producer visited him in his hotel room and found him on the floor, for which he had to be taken to hospital despite refusing to leave work.
While he was being treated at the hospital, doctors discovered that John Paul Medina had suffered a heart attack and that he had complications in his intestine and leg due to a blood clot that was in an artery. “They realized that what was in the belly was not poisoning, they saw that it was not only the leg, but the entire intestine. In the legs I had clots and the mesenteric, which is the artery that passes through the intestine, was infested, another little detail, I was infarcted ”said the actor
Medina He was hospitalized for more than a month, where he found himself in very delicate health, since he had to undergo surgery on his intestines and leg, however, as the days went by, the risk of losing his life increased and there was no other option. to amputate his lower right extremity.
“The doctor told me: ‘I promised to do everything to save your leg, but not to risk your life. I can’t do more, we have to amputate your leg’. It was the only option. The pain is unbearable, I can’t take it anymore. The miracle is not having died there and having another chance, so I said: ‘Let’s go!’”, concluded the actor.
Behind this, John Paul Medina he stayed away from acting and was living the duel of having lost his legHowever, after taking therapies and with the support of his loved ones, the actor has come forward and accepted his condition, and even last year a photo session was made public where he is seen calm and showing his prosthesis.