“He is very tired”
“We’re going to start allowing him to do things that everyone does, namely sit, eat, stand. Today, he still has a little difficulty opening his eyes, because he suffers from diplopia, that is to say that the reflexes which coordinate your two eyes are a little disturbed following the “hyperpressure in the skull,” continued the doctor.
“He is very tired, he really has a hard time communicating. When you come out of this period of coma in quotes, you are really exhausted,” continued the doctor. For the rehabilitation of the Haut-Alpin, world number 2 in downhill last winter, “we are talking about months, we are not at all about recovery in weeks”, which excludes a return to competition this winter.
Uncertainty for the rest of his career
The downhiller, winner of four races last winter including a resounding double in Kitzbühel (Austria), will continue his rehabilitation at the Henri-Gabriel center, still in Lyon, “which really has specificity in neurological rehabilitation for people who have had car accidents, people who have had enormous trauma,” the doctor said.
“For the final assessment of potential injuries (which will be done in the coming days, editor’s note), I am relatively calm. He seems to be doing really well at the moment,” insisted Doctor Bulle.
Asked whether Sarrazin, 30, could resume his career, the French team doctor was clear: “I have absolutely no idea where this is going to take us. I can’t tell you. But anyway, that’s our goal.”
During this press briefing, the French team doctor who praised “very good quality care” provided by his Italian colleagues, revealed that Sarrazin’s situation had deteriorated in the first hours of his hospitalization. .Inc
“The (intracranial) hematoma quickly worsened and led to what is called compression. In agreement with the neurosurgeons, we made a burr hole. That is to say, we do a suction in the skull to empty the blood inside the hematoma,” he explained.
