Christine Bravo warned, during the Big Heads on RTL on November 7, that she would have back surgery the next day (www.20minutes.fr/sante/3148303-20211222-mal-dos-pourquoi-indispensable-bouger-choisir-bon-fauteuil). An important operation, for which she is still hospitalized, as she testified on her Instagram account, three days later, and the pain is severe.
“Compared to this, the quartering of Ravaillac was tickling,” quips the former presenter of Under the petticoats of History in his Instagram post.
And without euphemism, Christine Bravo writes in this message titled Bobo Time : “Does it hurt?” NO, it’s just HORRIBLE.”
Tried everything
Reflecting on the human condition, she who saw the stoicism of her favorite animals (goats, a dog) in the face of suffering, she admits to finding herself “pathetic”. However, this time, and we hope, this operation should put an end to “a year” of suffering.
The host also mentioned it in May on Instagram. She suffered from lower back pain. A “disc disease” (a condition of the spine), but it was treated “for a herniated disc”.
“I was lying in bed non-stop,” she explained.
After trying painkillers and infiltrations, she even tried the infernal custom-made metal corset supposed to ease her pain. If she does not specify that gymnastics was part of the range deployed to help her, Christine Bravo sent Arielle Dombasle, present during the show on RTL, back to the ropes and who suggested that she “do gym” rather than to opt for surgery.
“As you see me, you see me cheerful, because I am totally stoned,” said Christine Bravo, before encouraging people in her case to “have an operation instead of doing infiltrations, gymnastics… and to suffer and let it drag on.”
So, rather than overusing painkillers, the 68-year-old member of Les Grosses Têtes chose to have her “vertebrae screwed in, like they do in viocs,” she warned, with a bit of grating humor. On Instagram, on November 11, she detailed the intervention, without filter. “They just screwed 2 titanium stakes between 2 vertebrae, L4/L5 level. It’s called an arthrodesis,” explained the former teacher.
Convalescence, which requires complete immobility, lasts a month. But Christine Bravo remains hopeful: “I will eventually leave the hospital, right? » she concluded. And she will be able to return to Corsica, to her house, with her husband… and her animals.
