It has been almost a month since he was operated on. undergo a corneal transplant e Laura Ponte (49) couldn’t be happier with the result. Now that everything has passed and she has recovered a lot, she celebrates the incredible repercussions that her story has had, which she herself has shared on her social networks and is surprised by the reactions of friends and followers in this period.
It was last October 7 when she intervened to the university hospital La Paz in Madrid to undergo that necessary eye transplant with which he managed to save his eye and return to see normally. He had already been operated on earlier in the summer, after suffering a corneal perforation, as a result of which he lost sight in his left eye.
THE SPANISH He spoke with Laura, who wants to thank all the support received and also send a message about the importance of being a donor in order to be able to give life to other people, as happened to her. “I’ve always been a donor. The first card I received when I was 18 was the organ donor card. But I swear to you that in life I thought I was like that, that I would need it. “
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The model at the gates of the hospital where she was operated on.
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This is why awareness is so important to the model. “We must give our life, because we forget how much we can help others. All I do is think about the person who lives in me and who gave me a second life, do you understand? reflect. One of the most positive things she has had to go through this trance is realizing how much people love her, despite the fact that she does not lavish much in public events and is not too active on her social networks.
“I would like to thank you for all the messages I have received, loving, encouraging, from people who have been waiting and that I did not know before. Curiously, with some of us we ended up being friends and chatting on Instagram about our lives. It was great and super exciting for me. Positive lessons in life, “he confesses to this medium.
Laura Ponte is already doing well, even if the cornea transplant is a bit tricky, so we need to celebrate that it was a complete success. “I’m fine, but when you have a transplant, the problem of rejection is something that is always there. The operation was phenomenal and so were the revisions. I can not believe. The truth is that I have needed a transplant for a long time, because 20 years ago I had a very bad eye. He had a very large corneal lesion and problems such as photophobia. I was leaving him and the end opened my wound and it was all a bit urgent, “he says.
He acknowledges that he was a little scared, but now that everything has passed and he is fine, he encourages people who have the same problem “not to wait. Today the truth is that miracles are done and they are worth it.” In her case, the fact that this operation has come at a time of maturity helps not to dramatize: “From the first minute I fell in love with my eye when it turned white And I wouldn’t have minded staying that way. The head is very powerful and takes you around the friendly place, I forgot it was like that even when they called me for a photo shoot. I didn’t have moments of doubt or anything, it wasn’t something my life depended on, it wasn’t my heart. “
Laura Ponte in the ‘front row’ of Cibeles before the operation.
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Your life does not depend on it, but it is very important, among other things, for your profession. Laura Ponte was with his fashion laboratory designing and creating exclusive wedding dresses and on request. She herself tells EL ESPAÑOL why she keeps this facet somewhat at a low level of media visibility. “I don’t sell my girls all day because the infrastructure I have is small. They are tailor-made suits and it is a very intimate thing, It’s my way of working. I love the relationship with the bride and even if many dresses are not enough to work a lot. I like it a lot and I like being able to spend hours on it. I don’t have a company of ten people working for me and I don’t know if I would be able to do that. It works by word of mouth. I couldn’t be more ambitious. “
