Fernando Díaz de la Guardia is one of the television journalists with more experience in Andalusia. Born in Granada in 1972, the bulk of his career has elapsed around the city and his area of influence. In addition to covering sporting events, it has also been able to present spaces of relevance in Canal Sur, Spanish Television and Four. However, his life turned on January 6, 2024, after getting up “with intense pain in the neck.”
“I had the right eye open, without flashing and the mouth fallen. The ambulance came and the day of kings, my children were opening the gifts, I suddenly see myself in an emergency ambulance to the Virgen de las Nieves hospital in Granada,” I commented through a video of Tiktok. It was during the journey to the medical center where one of the members of the vehicle, “an angel named María Angustias,” the so -called Ramsay Hunt syndrome diagnosed.
This disease, also known as an optical herpes zoster, “occurs when an outbreak affects the facial nerve near one of your ears” according to Mayo Clinic. “In addition to the painful eruption of the snake, Ramsay Hunt syndrome can cause facial paralysis and hearing loss in the affected ear,” says the medical center, clarifying in the same way that it is a consequence of the same virus that produces the chickenpox.
“Ramsay Hunt syndrome occurs in people who have had chickenpox. Once you recover from chickenpox, the virus remains in your body, sometimes reactivating in later years to cause Herpes Zóster, a painful eruption with blisters full of liquid. Ramsay Hunt syndrome is a spring of herpes zoster herpes that affects the facial nerve near one of your ears. Unilateral facial paralysis and hearing loss, ”they break.
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Faced with everything
This situation led to the creation of unbeatable by Díaz de la Guardia. It is a series of motivational talks initiated in November 2024, converted into interviews issued by Canal Sur in a recurring way. Personalities such as Irene Villa have shared their experience since then, with Granada’s own journalist exposing his point of view and the route he has had to give since then.
“During these months I have met different patients with pathologies in the face and other incapacitating diseases and their testimonies have helped me to face my situation, so I thought I could also help telling my experience to other people. But I do not want to stay there but I want to continue learning and share the testimony of overcoming personal examples that I admire,” he acknowledged.
