Former hockey player Jozef Golonka only recently (January 6) celebrated his 87th birthdaybut as he admitted for , he was afraid that he would not even live to see them. Before the Christmas holidays, he had to undergo an operation on a strip that hit his leg at the joint, and in a few weeks he will go under the scalpel again.
“At my age, you never know what can happen. I told myself that I would live to see my birthday in January. I was very scared. Fortunately, everything turned out well. We have very high-quality doctors in Slovakia. I won’t let them do it,” explained the legend, who had bypass surgery nine years ago. “We’ll see what awaits me, what will happen,” the former Slovan Bratislava player added to the Czech media.
Without doctors “it would have already fallen apart”
Pork knuckle Slovak doctors cannot be praised enough and he would like it if we also had such top-class people in sports as we have in this industry. “I trust our doctors, because I’ll tell you frankly, without them I would have fallen apart. I owe it to our doctors that my body hasn’t fallen apart yet.” said recently to the plain for
In addition to the Slovak doctors who always saved him, his family also played a big role in the whole process. “I’ll just laugh at it, because how many stitches do I have on my body… There are already over three hundred of them. When I consider how many injuries I had and that I was able to get back on my feet after all that, I owe it to a good environment and family. Without it, all this cannot be overcome,” concluded Golonka.
