The historic ex-Brazilian soccer player Pelé presents a progression of colon cancer that he faces and receives care for renal and cardiac dysfunctions, the Sao Paulo hospital where he has been hospitalized for three weeks reported this Wednesday.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé, 82 years old, “presents a progression of the oncological disease and requires greater care related to renal and cardiac dysfunctions“, detailed the Albert Einstein Hospitalshortly after the ex-footballer’s family reported that he would spend Christmas at the medical center.
“The patient remains hospitalized in a common room, under the necessary care of the medical team,” the hospital added.
Pelé was hospitalized on November 29 for a reassessment of your colon cancer chemotherapy treatment detected last year, and to treat a respiratory infection derived from a recent covid infectionaccording to doctors and his family.
In the previous newsletter, from December 12ththe medical team had reported that Pelé showed “an improvement in his clinical condition, especially his respiratory infection”but that continued without a discharge forecast.
This Wednesday, the daughters of ‘O Rei’, three times world champion with Brazil (1958, 1962 and 1970), said that I wouldn’t come home for Christmas.
“Our Christmas at home was called off. We decided together with the doctors that, for various reasons, it would be better for us to stay here, with all the care that this new family [del hospital Albert] Einstein gives us,” Kely Nascimento, one of the former soccer player’s daughters, wrote on Instagram, along with a “selfie” taken with her sister Flavia Arantes Nascimento at the hospital.
“We will transform the hospital room into a sambadrome (just kidding), we will even prepare caipirinhas (this is not a joke!)”, Kely added in the message published shortly before the medical bulletin.
– Prayers –
“As always, We appreciate all the love that you transmit to us in Brazil and in the world. The love they have for him, their stories and his prayers are enormous consolation, ”add Pelé’s daughters on the social network.
In recent weeks, both multiplied the messages on the platforms in an attempt to reassure the fans, after journalistic versions that ensured that Pelé was not responding to chemotherapy and was receiving “palliative care”.
Pelé “is sick, he is old, but at the moment he is hospitalized due to a lung infection. And when he gets better, he comes home ”, Kely Nascimento had assured in an interview with the Globo channel on December 5 last.
Since his hospitalization, the legendary former player received various tributes and wishes for improvement during the World Cup in Qatar.
According to his family, Pelé accompanied the matches of Brazileliminated in the quarterfinals, from the TV in her hospital room.
On Sunday, Kely posted a photo of her sister Flavia massaging her father’s left foot while watching the final between Argentina and France.
After the albiceleste triumph, Pelé congratulated Lionel Messi and the Argentine team on their social networks for their third world title: “Certainly Diego is smiling now,” Pelé wrote in reference to former star Diego Maradona, who died in 2020 at the age of 60.
