Pepe Mujica is recovering from the operation he performed …

Former Uruguayan President José Mujica he is “well and awake” after being subjected this Tuesday in a hospital in Montevideo to an endoscopy, in which an ulcer has been detected in the esophagus. “It’s okay Pepe, it was a domestic accident. When she ate fish, she had the bad luck that a thorn got stuck in her, ”said Lucía Topolansky, of the procedure that was carried out on her husband.

As he explained this morning, the thorn could not be removed on an outpatient basis due to where it had been deposited, “a place to joke,” Topolansky described. for which the former president had to be hospitalized and anesthetized. “It went well and now they’re going to do an ultrasound and he’s coming home. I spoke with him for a little while before he was numbed and he actually complained because he was starving, ”Mujica’s wife joked, in dialogue with Radio10, early Wednesday.

At a post-intervention press conference, otolaryngologists Martín Fraschini and Andrés Munyo reported that the 85-year-old, also a former senator, He will be hospitalized for several days for observation.

As Munyo explains, the ex-president had “a sensation of a foreign body for several days” and the procedure, which lasted about 40 minutes, gave the existence of an “ulcer in the lining of the esophagus”, what Fraschini said could be linked precisely to “the ingestion of a foreign body”.

Initially, it was reported that Mujica entered with a thorn stuck in his esophagus, but the general secretary of the board of directors of the Casmu hospital center, Juan José Areosa, said that no “foreign object” was found.

Doctors took a biopsy of the area to rule out any other pathology, although they insisted that there is “a high chance (probability) that it is traumatic”, because “it can happen that a foreign body hits the mucous membrane and causes an inflammatory state, opens and there the ulcer “.

Areosa stressed that no further diagnosis was going to be advanced, because “it was the first impression” of the specialists. “Let us wait for the evolution and the subsequent analyzes. For the moment it is the one concerning the pathology”, he added.

Mujica, who was “happy in quotes, attentive to his situation” and “making jokes”, is alone in a room in the non-covid area of ​​the hospital, where only his personal doctor, Raquel Pannone, was for a few- one of the moments.

Following the results of some imaging tests to rule out neck and chest complicationsAt 1:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. GMT), the medical team will report back on the progress.

“It will be what you need, what is right and necessary, no more and no less, we are not going to delay their stay, but we are not going out early until they are sure of the situation in which is the patient, “Areosa argued.

The former president, who will be 86 on May 20, stepped down from his Senate seat in 2020 after increased cases of the covid-19 pandemic and taking into account the risk that this represents for his health, since, in addition to his advanced age, he suffers from an autoimmune disease.