According to the interpreter, it all happened when he was 10 years old when a bus ran over him, tearing his skin almost completely. He spent months in recovery and assured that they managed to put his leg back together.
The Chilean actor Álvaro Rudolphy recounted one of the most difficult moments of his life, when, at the age of 10, he suffered an accident when he was run over by a bus that left him with serious consequences. regarding to lose his leg.
Rudolphy, who spoke with Martín Cárcamo on the program from you to youspoke regarding different economic difficulties that he experienced with his mother, when he commented that “I was hit by a bus when I was 10 years old”.
According to his story, it all happened when he was going to the house of a schoolmate to do some work and, halfway there, he realized that he was regarding to miss the train that was going to his route. That is why he decided to run to arrive before his departure.
However, When crossing the street, a bus caught up with him “and took my leg off”. Regarding what he said, Rudolphy explained that in the accident “my femur broke, a bone came out here, this part dislodged and all the skin…”, he described to then make gestures.
“The wheel grabbed my leg and dragged me, because the driver turned (to avoid a fatal outcome) the wheel dragged me and peeled my whole leg. All the meat, the skin,” he recounted.
According to the actor, despite the accident, he never lost consciousness and saw how people around him reactedincluding people who got off the bus.
Then, they put him on the same bus to take him to the Viña del Mar hospital, which happened in minutes.
However, upon entering the emergency room, he assured that the initial decision of the trainees was to cut his leg. “They gave me a tourniquet to stop the bleeding and they recommended cutting the leg. But there was a doctor on duty who called to try to save the leg.”counted.
In that branch, he mentioned that “I want to thank those who perhaps never gave it to them in life, who He was the one who reconstructed my leg. It was a great-uncle of mine, who for three months put my leg together, gave me grafts and here we are”.
A traumatic recovery
Although he managed to save his leg, the recovery was not fast. According to the actor, spent three months in bedspecifically lying on his back so he might continue the reconstruction of his leg.
“There was a moment when they gave me so much anesthesia that they mightn’t keep giving me because I started to get intoxicated,” he explained, noting that due to the severity of his injury, “my meat began to rot of the leg, because I had no skin.
So, “They had to do cures to disinfect my living flesh three times a week,” he explained, assuring that everything was done without anesthesia and that even seeing the doctor in his room scared him greatly.
According to his account, they grabbed his arms, put a cloth in his mouth and scraped the wounded flesh without anesthesia. “Imagine that pain regarding three times a week for three months. But here it is, I managed to be a teleseries flirt”he commented between laughs.
