Caruso Lombardi confessed to having surgery for a tumor in his head that almost left him blind: ‘I cried every day’

Ricardo Caruso Lombardi He confessed that he was hiding a series of health problems he had recently experienced. It all started at the end of 2022, when he decided to have a CT scan due to a headache that had dragged on since coaching Belgrano de Córdoba. He was convinced to have a checkup due to the trauma that remained from an aneurysm his father suffered when he was 60 (today the former DT is 61).

“One Sunday, I went for a walk at the racecourse as I usually do. I had released a small pain in the temple which bothered me. He put me on ice and it calmed me down. I went to the keeper of the Jockey Club and asked for a scanner. A few hours later they called me from the clinic and told me it was urgent. I choked on my food. The doctor told me there was something she didn’t like and to go see a neurologist. The problem wasn’t where it hurt, it was up. He had a tumor 3 centimeters, the size of a plum“, he expressed himself in the program Sports TNin which he has long been a panelist.

In November 2022, he began to undergo rigorous studies and kept the whole process a secret. He continued to go to the television cycle and communicated the situation only to his intimate circle. At the beginning of December, his left eye began to fog up and his right eye began to close: “The only thing that calmed me down to regain my sight was to lie down. I started taking diuretics to eliminate fluids and it evened out. But one day, the doctor told me that I had to have an operation because if I didn’t, after five months, I would go blind.”.

These were mentally difficult times for richard“You think the worst. I remember watching Gallardo de River’s goodbye and not stopping crying. Imagine the handle I gave myself. Your queue is full of questions, you never think of anything good even if you want to. It was day after day driving and crying. I saw my family, my boys and I couldn’t speak. I had a lump in my throat. I avoided googling and looking for things because otherwise it would be worse.

“I was very scared. They were going to operate on me on January 7 and I didn’t hesitate in the fear I had. That same night I caught pancreatitis which left me drinking water for five days in a row”, account. Eventually, on January 28, the tumor was removed in a six-hour procedure, he remained in intensive care for 48 to 72 hours, and began rehabilitation. “A despair seizes you that you don’t know what to do. I went to see Father Ignacio in Rosario and on our return we swallowed an animal on the road and broke the whole car. If he took us head-on, we would make ointment. We still don’t know what it was, it was very big and white,” he also said.

And he confessed: “It was very difficult for me to say goodbye to my family before the operation. Because it’s a goodbye. They cut you open like a watermelon. It occurred to me that I wasn’t going to see them anymore. You live with anxiety all the time, I had a knot that I couldn’t get out. ” The vision came to complicate him so much that it forced him to stop four times his car during a trip to Mar del Plata: “I was blind. He had to stop and walk for 15 minutes to regain his sight. On the way back, I did not drive and blindness took me to Chascomús”.

Already recovered, Caruso was looking for explanations to understand why he had to go through this situation: “During the 12 years that I fought relegations in the First Division and that I was at full speed, nothing happened to me. When your body is calm, the lights are starting to come on. The nerves and all that I have suffered have started to weigh on me, I have no doubt about it”.

Today he changed many day-to-day issues: “Before, he annoyed me with a VAR decision that I felt was unfair. Before, I was fighting… Now, I think of the club presidents who complain, who are the ones who allow it. If one day I have to do five things in a day and I can’t do two, I do them the next day. Before it bothered me, now I take life differently.

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