Isabel Coixet has revealed that she suffered a stroke in 2016. The director of ‘My life without me’ and ‘The secret life of the words’ has narrated its history during an interview at the Pódcast ‘Open Consultation’ of Podium Podcast, which is recorded with the collaboration of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. The Coixet interview has been broadcast on Monday in the Radio Program La Venta de Cadena Ser.
In the interview, Coixet says he suffered a stroke while visiting his daughter hospitalized at the Barcelona Clinic. Remember that, during his visit, he was paralyzed for a minute while climbing the stairs to his daughter’s room and that, when he arrived and spoke with the doctors, he expressed unintelligible words. Then Coixet felt a loss of sensitivity in his right hand. Coixet went to the Emergencies, where he was diagnosed with a stroke.
Coixet details his story from the beginning: «I remember that they called me to tell me that my daughter had been admitted to the Clinical Hospital because she had something in the gallbladder and that they were going to operate. And when I uploaded the hospital stairs, they called me to tell me that a friend of mine was admitted in another place in the same center, with a heart attack. I went down the clinician’s hall and stuck. There I stopped, I couldn’t walk. I felt that my brain gave orders to my legs and that they did not obey. That lasted like a minute. Then I got to the room, where doctors with Zoe, my daughter, and I realize that I am asking the doctors, but what I say is not intelligible. The third thing is that when I went to wash my hands, I realized that I had no sensitivity in my right hand, that I did not notice if the water was cold or hot. And there I already thought, this is very rare. So I went to the emergency room and there they already saw very clear that I had had a stroke. They took me to the Ictus unit, I met Dr. Chamorro who explained to me very clearly everything he thought had happened to me ».
Coixet, which in 2023 premiered the film ‘A Love’, is rolling its new film, ‘Tre Ciotole’, a co -production of Italy and Spain based on the posthumous autobiography of the Italian activist Michela Murgia.
With Isabel Coixet, Jenesaispop had the opportunity to speak in 2015. You can remember that head of headlines here.
