News on Pelé’s health: involution in illness and hospitalized Christmas

the Brazilian idol Pele has a “development” of his health and a “progression” of the colon cancer he faces while receiving treatment for “renal and cardiac dysfunction“This was reported this Wednesday by the San Pablo hospital where he has been hospitalized for three weeks.

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, 82, “presents oncological disease progression and requires more care related to kidney and heart dysfunction,” Albert Einstein Hospital explained, shortly after the former footballer’s family reported that I would spend Christmas at the medical center.

“The patient continues boarding in a common loungeunder the necessary care of the medical team,” the hospital added.

Pele was hospitalized Nov. 29 for a reevaluation of his chemotherapy treatment for colon cancer detected last year and for treatment of a respiratory infection stemming from a recent covid infection, according to doctors and his family.

In the previous bulletin, dated December 12, the medical team had reported that Pelé showed “an improvement in his clinical conditions, especially in the respiratory infection”, but that he had continued without a scheduled discharge.

This Wednesday, the daughters of ‘O Rei’, three times world champion with Brazil (1958, 1962 and 1970), declared that he would not be returning home for Christmas.

“Our Christmas at home has been suspended. We have decided together with the doctors that, for various reasons, it would have been better for us to stay here, with all the care that this new family from the Albert Einstein hospital gives us”, Kely Nascimento, a hospital member, wrote on Instagram of the former footballer’s daughters, along with a selfie taken with her sister Flavia Arantes Nascimento in the hospital.

“We will transform the hospital room in a sambodromo (just kidding)until we will prepare caipirinhas (It’s not a joke!)”, Kely added in the message published shortly before the medical bulletin.

“As always, we appreciate all the love that Brazil and the world send us. The love they have for him, their stories and their prayers are a huge consolation,” added Pelé’s daughters on the social network.

In recent weeks, both have multiplied messages on the platforms in an attempt to reassure fans, after journalistic versions that ensured that Pele was not responding to chemotherapy and was receiving “palliative care”.

Pelé “is sick, he’s old, but at the moment he’s hospitalized for a lung infection. And when he’s better he’ll go home”, Kely Nascimento assured in an interview with the Globo channel on 5 December.

Since his hospitalization, the legendary former player has received various gifts and wishes for improvement during the World Cup in Qatar.

According to his family, Pelé attended matches against Brazil, eliminated in the quarter-finals, from the TV in his hospital room.

On Sunday, Kely posted a photo of her sister Flavia massaging her father’s left foot. watching the final between Argentina and France.

After the triumph of the albiceleste, Pelé congratulated Lionel Messi and the Argentine team on their third world title on social media: “Diego is certainly smiling now“Pelé wrote referring to exastro Diego Maradona, who died in 2020 at the age of 60.

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