Kostomarov, after the amputations, the long ordeal and the attack on his partner

A training in low temperatures despite the fever, severe bilateral pneumonia, two strokes and the amputation of the feet and some fingers. An ordeal that the Russian skater Roman Kostomarov he has been living for three months now. His conditions remain serious, the doctors often celery him because the emotional impact is strong. In one of the few moments of lucidity, realizing his own state, he was seized by a moment of anger and tried to attack his partner, Oksana Domnina, who hasn’t abandoned him even for a moment since the beginning of the sad story. A real raptus – they told from the hospital of Kommunarka, in Moscow, where he is hospitalized – derived from the inability to communicate and make himself understood by the woman. Now Kostomarov has been joined by a specialist who will help him accept what happened.

However, Domnina remains the only person who has access to her room. The skater still has serious respiratory and heart problems, which is why the doctors are postponing the decision to amputate a hand, which is close to necrosis. At the moment the man is not considered able to survive a further surgical operation. Kostomarov’s recovery path – and the complex attempt to find a certain form of normality – is still long and uphill.