Pessotto on the mend Thursday 27 July, 2006
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Doctors treating Gianluca Pessotto have confirmed he will leave intensive care in the next week, although a complete recovery may take as long as a few years.
The former Juventus player was hospitalised on June 27 following a fall from the club’s headquarters in an apparent suicide attempt.
Pessotto, recently appointed as the club’s new team manager, is now aware of what occurred and wants to start a fresh chapter in his life.
“He wishes to follow a treatment and get better,” said professor Donato Munno, who confirmed that the 35-year-old has started seeing a psychiatrist in the past two weeks.
“The patient is conscious of his condition, accepts the medication we are prescribing and is now focusing on his recovery.”
Wednesday’s Press conference at the Molinette hospital was the last one as Pessotto and his family have asked for a news blackout, a decision that the doctors treating him agree with.
“Pessotto will now have to face a long road toward his complete recovery and we need to work in silence,” added Munno. “It is very hard to anticipate how much time this will take.
“We are helping him remember what happened in June and to accept the truth,” he continued.
“Pessotto’s depression is not recent and was complicated by the decision to end his career as a player, in spite of his new role as a manager.
“He sees this as a difficult job, but is willing to rise to the challenge,” ended Munno. “He has the strength to do so, and we are here to support him, as well as his family.”
Pessotto has received massive support from the footballing world and the general public since his dramatic fall from a second floor window.
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Doctors treating Gianluca Pessotto have confirmed he will leave intensive care in the next week, although a complete recovery may take as long as a few years.
The former Juventus player was hospitalised on June 27 following a fall from the club’s headquarters in an apparent suicide attempt.
Pessotto, recently appointed as the club’s new team manager, is now aware of what occurred and wants to start a fresh chapter in his life.
“He wishes to follow a treatment and get better,” said professor Donato Munno, who confirmed that the 35-year-old has started seeing a psychiatrist in the past two weeks.
“The patient is conscious of his condition, accepts the medication we are prescribing and is now focusing on his recovery.”
Wednesday’s Press conference at the Molinette hospital was the last one as Pessotto and his family have asked for a news blackout, a decision that the doctors treating him agree with.
“Pessotto will now have to face a long road toward his complete recovery and we need to work in silence,” added Munno. “It is very hard to anticipate how much time this will take.
“We are helping him remember what happened in June and to accept the truth,” he continued.
“Pessotto’s depression is not recent and was complicated by the decision to end his career as a player, in spite of his new role as a manager.
“He sees this as a difficult job, but is willing to rise to the challenge,” ended Munno. “He has the strength to do so, and we are here to support him, as well as his family.”
Pessotto has received massive support from the footballing world and the general public since his dramatic fall from a second floor window.
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