“Ulf Sterner minutes of losing his life”
“Ishockeylegendaren Ulf Sterner, 78, was near death a few weeks ago.”
“Wife Pia Sterner came home and found him in the kitchen in the house outside of Karlstad.”
“His brain was about to explode,” she says. “
“Camden, Ulf Sterner is one of our biggest ishockeylegendarer: including games in Västra Frölunda, Färjestad and Sports.”
“He was our first exported to the NHL player, New York Rangers, season 1962u002F1963 – he made 189 appearances for Tre Kronor and was with and won a world CHAMPIONSHIPS gold medal in Colorado Springs in 1962.”
“For more than a month ago, life was close to take a sudden and tragic end for 78-year-old. “
” I was dying, I ended up just. I got a poisoning from the stomach, through the pancreas and up to the brain, ” says Ulf Sterner.”
“What was it that really happened?”
” I couldn’t talk, I couldn’t go, I didn’t know what I was called, I didn’t know where I lived. “
“– I sat there. What is the name of I? Where I live? I took out an atlas, among other things, I knew nothing. “
“Were you home alone when it occurred?”
“– Pia came to the home of a coincidence from work and found me. It was an ambulance, it was a new world record in the transport. “
” Life is short sometimes. I had high blood pressure at 198, so it was millimeters from the brain would be knocked out. “
” I have a pain in the head sometimes, but I go on very tablets. I can’t walk without crutches and x-rayed still in the rounds. “
“Ulf Sterner had to remain in the hospital for over two weeks, the doctors have said he will be fully restored.”
“The exact diagnosis was an infection of the autonomic nervous system.”
“He has still hard to remember and find the words.”
” I didn’t remember anything when I woke up. Now, the memories will return gradually, ” says Ulf Sterner.”
“The long ishockeykarriären cost – for a time ago he had surgery for the hip and for the future, should he operate on my back because of nerve damage.”
“– It feels otherwise is not good how I have been treated by society because of my injuries, they have ignored me completely – the social insurance office thought that I had played ice hockey for a bit, I had 32 seasons in the first team. I could not work at the end because I had so much pain, I have just received my pension elevation from 6900 to 7200 dollars a month, ” says Ulf Sterner.”
“It was wife, Pia Sterner, who found him in the home that day, the doctors have said that it was the minutes from that it was too late. “
” I saved his life the doctors said, so near was it. He had lost century, I know that when someone has lost century, then it is 112, said Pia Sterner.”
“After ishockeykarriären Ulf Sterner been doing a lot of harness racing in various forms, currently he has three horses at home on the farm.”
“– I bought a new cart the other day. I will probably buy one more horse as well, ” says Ulf Sterner.”
“Both of his previous clubs, Frölunda and Färjestad are playing right now SM-semi-finals, both leads with a 1-0 win in matches against Lulea, respectively, the island of Djurgården.”
“Ulf Sterner usually go on the Horse games and also look very much hockey at home on the tv. “
“” I have not been able to take advantage of my seat the last time, the son had to take so long. I have since some time back said that they will win the SM-gold – they are so strong, and got together a functioning team on the good way, I saw the match on tv last Saturday, and Djurgarden was a bit too thin but According to the allowed them not to play their game, ” says Ulf Sterner.”
“On 23 april, the documentary series Hockeyns history premiered in SVT, a series in three parts at a total of three hours of Jens Lind and Albert Svanberg.”
“Where is Ulf Sterner and Pia Sterner, two of the main characters like the ice hockey, the pioneers, together with, among others, Börje Salming and Pekka Lindmark.”
“At a press conference in Stockholm during the Monday morning is Ulf Sterner happy, joking and laughing a lot.”
” Life has its time. You just have to try to take it positively, ” says Ulf Sterner.”