Singer Maxim - about the recovery from coronavirus: "Twice I died from the cardiac arrest"

She gave her first interview after the recovery to Ksenia Sobchak; in the beginning she turned to the Russians with the gratitude for their support.

“First of all, I would like to go on the air with gratitude. With gratitude to the brilliant, absolutely amazing doctors and, of course, to the people who were so worried, who shared these events, who did not participate in the talk shows, they did not leave the temples, they prayed...

Of course, I am grateful to those who reacted so sympathetically to these events... Probably, thanks to this support, I got to my feet, in my sanity, in my mind, no matter how surprising in my situation.

...To begin with, I was put into an artificial medicamentous coma, I don’t remember these events (we are talking about the transition to mechanical ventilation - editor's note). Another thing is that my body, as it turned out later, refused to leave this coma.

My gratitude to the first clinic that accepted me, for the fact that they sincerely confessed that they were not coping with the task and were losing the patient.

It became clear that mechanical ventilation is not coping and the damage to the lungs is becoming more and more, blood clots have formed and the oxygen that should have been supplied through ventilation to the lungs simply does not come, does not reach. And a person cannot live without oxygen.

Therefore, an ECMO apparatus was urgently needed, which replaces the function of the lungs, heart, if necessary, kidneys. It can replace the work of many organs for a while, while doctors have the opportunity to fight for the patient's life.

…It was about the fact that, in principle, there were minutes left for me, that the doctors simply did not have time, technically, to take me to this ECMO… But, as far as I understand, the doctors from the 52nd clinic received me on the spot.

My tube stood from the thigh, from the groin, passed through the heart and out through the neck. Then they changed the ventilator to ECMO and from the other side did...

In general, I counted nine scars on myself.

...When I came to, I was told that my heart stopped twice.

The ECMO apparatus was connected, and it replaces the work of the heart.

Of course, if it were not for it, then nothing would have happened.

It is difficult to explain (what kind of a state it was - editor's note) ...

Probably, no dream is remembered that way, does not make such an impression. He is so kind of conscious, so much you can control your movements, with your hands, which in principle you cannot do in a dream.

With me personally, this did not happen (talking about "leaving the body" - editor's note). I've heard of such stories, but no.

...All the complications that could be in this situation, they happened. There were bleeding and septic shock.

Every day they changed the strategy to save me as a patient. Nothing worked...

...Father came himself. He was the only one allowed into the red zone, he was there already three times, one of which I remember.

I was conscious. Although I heard that he wrote on social networks that I looked at him with a clear look, but, of course, I was not on that planet then.

He gave me communion, with the sick people it is easier... (In the program "The destiny of a Man" by Boris Korchevnikov, the singer said that she was not allowed to take the sacrament because of the sin she was committing - editor's note)

The worst thing is that I cannot regret the sin I commit. Yes, and I continue to do so.

Maybe they give me time to think...

Well, at least to fix something, to have time to do something good. Now I see it that way.

I think that the Almighty, he, like a loving father, he still punishes with what he can give you on the head, on the ass. I have always treated my health and even life so disdainfully that sometimes he will hit it on the forehead!

And that's how it is: stronger and stronger.

Now he made it so well that I would appreciate his love a little”.

The full interview with Maxim can be viewed here.