“We are at an impasse”

“My partner, 26 years old, has no desire to live and I need help.” This is how the heartbreaking testimony of Africa begins, a young Andalusian who recently decided to turn to her social networks to make visible the complex health situation that her boyfriend is going through since, five years ago, he began to suffer from serious illnesses. disabling lower back pain.

In her video, which quickly went viral on TikTok, the young woman emphasizes that today, “he has already “He doesn’t even have the strength to get out of bed.” therefore, in her place, she would have been obliged to share her experience in the face of mixed type femoroacetabular impingement, a hip condition that causes deep pain in the groin, thigh, or buttock due to movement of the femur joint.

Although this condition can be treated with physiotherapy sessions or anti-inflammatories, among other options, if symptoms persist or worsen, surgery may be necessary, as was the case in your case. “We are at an impasse, we don’t know where to turn now” Africa confessed.

And as he explained, his partner has already been operated twice, The second operation, financed out of his own pocket, was the only one to achieve positive results, although, as the hip “was already very damaged” during the previous operation, he would not have experienced any significant improvement in his daily life.

“Imagine getting up and not being able to sit for more than an hour, nor for more than an hour standing, not being able to go to work, or go to the movies, or sit and have a drink anywhere,” the young woman pointed out, comparing her lower back discomfort to carrying “50 kilos of weight all the time.” Eventually, she said, it was determined that her partner was suffering from A “hip instability” with lumbar osteoarthritis linked to this condition.

In this sense, he stressed that the early diagnosis of his partner, aged 26, would have had a negative impact on his mental health, since he was forced to change his daily life and abandon his job after obtaining his agricultural engineering diploma. “He’s been out for two years, the maximum time allowed, and now We have started the disability application process, but it takes one or two years,” he noted.

Thus, although it positions itself in favor of the demands of public health workers, Africa is launching a public appeal in the face of long waiting lists and ask for help Internet users are looking for a private clinic or a professional willing to take care of their partner, who would have been refused several times due to the complexity of their case.

Later, faced with the massive reception of the video, the young couple launched a solidarity campaign via the GoFund platform, asking for donations to cover medical costs. “This is not the life of a 26-year-old. “He doesn’t want anything and we are desperate” Africa admitted as much in his video.