With a firm and leisurely pace, with the elegance of the bullfighters of another time, Javier Cortés appeared in the room of the Hospital La Milagrosa in Madrid . Smiling, serene and safe. Under the sunglasses you could guess a dressing that covered the right eye. A whistle blew the eyeball on September 15 in Las Ventas . Two operations, an immense pain and a mood battle that has found victory by dreaming of bullfighting next year, before even regaining some vision.

At the beginning of the press conference, Dr. David Antolin recalled that Javier Cortés had suffered a previous injury that had caused him to reduce 60% of his vision in his right eye. The grenade of September 15, in the doctor's words, could be deadly: "Javier's eye was already delicate before, he already had a loss [the bullfighter suffered a retinal detachment that left him with only 40% of vision] The trauma was tremendous Javier could have died If the range had been two centimeters beyond it could have caused his death in the delicate area we are talking about, he now has a retina with the possibility of recovering some vision after another operation, "adding:" But now, although the structure of the eye is preserved, he does not see. Even so, Javier has preferred to join the season instead of finishing the relevant surgeries. When he finishes he will be operated again. "

Javier Cortés took the floor. His emotional words had an icy force: " I am more alive than ever as a bullfighter . I have not taken the tackle yet, the day I do it, I will begin to take the training surrounded by my crew seriously," said the right-hander from Madrid, who has He recounted the dramatic experiences of that day at the end of the summer when he was seriously injured in his right eye by a bull by Marqués de Albaserrada: "With my grana and gold with which I have shared so many feelings and emotions I was dressed in Madrid to triumph or die I threw the coin and cross came out I will never forget that bull of Marquis de Albaserrada, "Gulf." In the infirmary I thought of the worst, that the bullfighter could die, that it is worse for the person to die. Gregorio Marañón hospital, hoping for the worst, I felt all kinds of affection from the closest people, "he said, adding sincerely:" I thought that everything would end there, that a new life was beginning, that my eye would not be able to reco to build myself. One night I started to change my world, I still didn't know what was going to happen. I got carried away by the people around me. Thanks to my crew, my attorney, my family. They all sent me the hug of this family, that of the bull. All bullfighting countries sent me their wishes to see me in the gang yards. "

The bullfighter has stopped especially in his gratitude to the doctors: "I have to thank all the doctors who have treated me from the first moment, in the square, first, and then in the Gregorio Marañón. And of course Dr. Antolin already Dr. Rojas: they saved the eye, saved the bullfighter and filled the person with illusion. "

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