Sport Six years after the accident
For the second time, track cycling legend Kristina Vogel had to fear for her life
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“My Apple Watch kept alarming. The lungs were completely closed,” reports Kristina Vogel
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Six years after her serious accident, Kristina Vogel’s life is again in danger. An emergency operation is necessary. She initially refuses to be admitted to the hospital. The day after, she is happy that her partner got his way.
Double Olympic champion Kristina Vogel suffered a pulmonary embolism and had to undergo emergency surgery. “I had so many thrombi in my lungs that my heart pressure had already risen and it was becoming life-threatening,” the 33-year-old former track cyclist wrote in an Instagram story on Monday. She told BILD: “I felt sick on Friday, my pulse was high, I had shortness of breath and thought I was suffocating. What the hell was that?”
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After she got worse and worse on the night from Friday to Saturday, her friend Michael Seidenbecher took her to the Berlin Accident Hospital on Saturday morning. The 39-year-old wanted to take her there on Friday evening. “But I didn’t want that. “I just didn’t want to believe it,” said Vogel. The couple has lived in Berlin for years. But on Saturday morning nothing worked anymore. “I had pain across my chest. I just laid there for two hours, but my pulse was still 120.”
In the Berlin accident hospital, where her life was saved in 2018 after the training accident in Cottbus, she was immediately put on the operating table – life-threatening. Even six years ago things were bad for her. She was rescued, but has been paralyzed in a wheelchair ever since. “My Apple Watch kept alarming. The pain kept getting worse. My chest closed, my shoulders and neck hurt immensely. The lungs were completely closed. A few hours later and I would have been dead,” Vogel said. Once again, the UKB employees probably saved her life, said Vogel.
“Thrombi looked like fat earthworms”
She was conscious during the operation and was able to watch on the monitor as the thrombi were removed. The blood clots looked “like fat earthworms. Once everything was out, I immediately felt better. But one more day at home would probably have been my last.”
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When the worst was over, she posted a photo from the hospital bed in which she was smiling again and still showing her left thumb up.
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On Monday, the record world champion (eleven titles) was moved from the intensive care unit to the normal ward and will remain in the hospital for observation for a few more days. According to Vogel, initial assessments indicate that her paralysis was not the cause; further investigations will follow.
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“Now I can rest for a few more days. “I actually didn’t want to go back to hospital until I had a child,” she says. “Now I’ll stay here until we find out the cause.”
