Janja on Lula’s hospitalization: It was a harrowing moment

The first lady, Janja Lula da Silva, said on Sunday (Dec 15, 2024) that she did not know what would happen after the 79-year-old president (PT), was taken to the hospital in discomfort. In an interview with the program “Fantastic”yes TV Globoshe declared that it was her “worst night”after the –victim of covid-19, in October 2020.

“On Monday [9.dez]I saw that he wasn’t very well. I was complaining about pain in my back, my leg was pulling, and I was already like that. But until lunchtime, he was fine. It started to decline during the afternoon, and then we went to the [hospital] Syrian. I can tell you that that… After the night my mother passed away, that was the worst night for me, because I didn’t know how we were going to start Tuesday. So it was really distressing moments of not knowing what was going to happen, but thank God, we are here today, he is fine”these.

On Monday night (Dec 9), the president went to the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in the federal capital and underwent 2 tests, a CT scan and an MRI. Afterwards, the doctors decided to take the PT member to the São Paulo unit.

Lula, in São Paulo, this Sunday (Dec 15, 2024). “Today, we were leaving the hospital, he was changing his clothes, I was really excited to see him looking good wearing a blazer”said Janja.

Reporter Sônia Bridi also asked the first lady if it crossed her mind that the president might not recover: “Were you at that level of concern that you thought you weren’t going to leave with him?”

Janja replied: “The situation was very serious. It was a very delicate moment, so… Of course, it goes through our heads, but we are here firm and strong to [ele] continue taking care of the country and taking care of myself too.”

Read Lula and Janja’s interview with “Fantastic”.

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CHRONOLOGY OF THE LULA OPERATION

Below, 79-year-old Lula’s trip to São Paulo (approximate times):

• 9.dez.2024 – Lula feels uncomfortable and leaves a meeting on parliamentary amendments with the presidents of the Chamber, (PP-AL), and the Senate, (PSD-MG) held at Palácio do Planalto, in Brasília. The PT member informs his personal doctor, Roberto Kalil Filho, around 15h who has headaches;
• 9.dez.2024 – the president goes to the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in the federal capital and undergoes 2 tests, a CT scan and an MRI. They decide to take the PT member to the São Paulo unit;
• 9.dez.2024 – the presidential plane with Lula on board takes off from Brasília at 23h08;
• 10.dez.2024 – lands in São Paulo at 0h24;
• 10.dez.2024 – Lula is undergoing surgery (understand how it went in the infographic below) which lasted around 3 hours;
• 10.dez.2024 – to the 4hthe president’s health status is announced;
• 10.dez.2024 – the president’s doctor informs that Lula is in the ICU (intensive treatment unit). President in the brain and his neurological functions are preserved;
• 11.dez.2024 – statement released to 12h that the president remains with a drain to prevent further bleeding in the head, but had a good immediate postoperative evolution;
• 11.dez.2024 – after saying that, the medical team informs the 16h30 than Lula on Thursday (Dec 12), at 7am, to stop the flow in an artery that irrigates the membrane that covers the brain, the meninges.
• 12.dez.2024 – Lula undergoes the procedure around 7h. Shortly after 8hdoctor Roberto Kalil Filho that the procedure was successful;
• 12.dez.2024 – the medical team claims that Lula is “” and that at the beginning of the week of December 16th;
• 12.dez.2024 – to the Poder360Roberto Kalil Filho that, if Lula bleeds again, a bigger operation is on the radar;
• 12.dez.2024 – in recovery, the president of children and grandchildren and for minister Rui Costa (Casa Civil) to be updated on the government’s agenda in Congress;
• 12.dez.2024 – new medical bulletin 19h states that Lula, but remains in the ICU;
• 13.dez.2024 – doctors in the morning, at 11:20 a.m.that the PT member left the ICU and is now under semi-intensive care;
• 13.dez 2024 – Lula in the Sírio-Libanês corridor alongside doctor Marcos Stavale, neurosurgeon responsible for the cranial trepanation on Tuesday (Dec 10), in a video published on social media. It’s possible in the PT member’s mind.

LULA’S HEALTH

Lula will be 81 when he ends his 3rd term as head of the Palácio do Planalto. He is already the oldest president of Brazil and frequently in interviews and public statements indicates that he intends to run in the next presidential election, in 2026.

The Chief Executive has “70 years old, energy of 30 and horny of 20”.

The craniotomy was carried out on Tuesday (Dec 10) after a cerebral hemorrhage was found due to what Lula suffered when he cut his toenail in the bathroom of the Palácio da Alvorada, his official residence in Brasília, in October this year.

Before that, in 2023, the president was hospitalized for the junction of the femur bone with the hip. On that occasion, he took the opportunity to have plastic surgery and removed excess skin around his eyes.

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