The condition of the Soviet and Russian writer Vladislav Krapivin, who was discharged from the hospital on August 7 after being hospitalized with pneumonia, worsened. This was announced to TASS by the commander of the youth squad “Caravel” Larisa Krapivina on Sunday, August 9.
“The condition has deteriorated significantly,” said the channel’s interlocutor. According to her, the writer’s tests for coronavirus are negative.
Krapivin was hospitalized on July 15, he was in the intensive care unit at Hospital No. 40 in Yekaterinburg.
Larisa Krapivina is the writer’s daughter-in-law and the wife of his son Pavel.
“So what do we have today. A person who is conscious, but he practically cannot move at all, ”she wrote on her Facebook page on August 9.
According to the daughter-in-law, on July 15, the family sent the writer to the hospital because he fell out of bed in the morning and spoke badly. “And there was a feeling that it was a stroke,” wrote Larisa Krapivina. Having heard the patient cough, he was “taken to hospital 24, where they did computed tomography (CT) of the brain, lungs and tests, but they said that there was no stroke or heart attack, but there was a suspicion of COVID-19 – CT of the lungs showed“ the presence of pneumonia with 25% defeat. “
According to the daughter-in-law, the test did not confirm the presence of coronavirus in the writer. When he was discharged, his relatives discovered an intramuscular hematoma and bedsores on his leg.
The relatives want to go to the surgeon and find out what is wrong with the writer’s leg. They are also sure that Krapivin had a stroke, although he was not indicated in the conclusion.
Vladislav Krapivin is the founder of the “Caravel” detachment, which is engaged in the study of maritime affairs. Among his famous works are “Boy with a Sword”, “Three from the Carronade Ground” and “Crane and Lightning”.
Earlier, on August 4, the former soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet, the teacher-tutor of this theater, Vladimir Nikonov, was hospitalized in Moscow with pneumonia. According to media reports, Nikonov is suspected of having a coronavirus infection.