There are physical illnesses and psychosomatic illnesses. There is hypochondria and there is “dar migué”, the Brazilian expression for making ronha. This introduction is necessary before talking about Jair Bolsonaro’s medical report.
Four days after being sentenced to 27 years in prison and beginning to fight anxiously to serve his sentence in the mansion where he lives and not in a common jail, the former president’s lawyers sent laboratory tests to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) that showed “a picture of anemia due to iron deficiency” and “residues of pneumonia due to bronchoaspiration”. And also the results of a “biopsy of skin lesions removed during skin surgery”.
In parallel, they reported that Bolsonaro maintains “treatment against high blood pressure, gastroesophageal reflux, in addition to preventive measures for bronchoaspiration”.
Soon after, the STF received a request for the politician to go to the hospital to treat “a malaise”, “a sudden drop in tension”, “an attack of vomiting” and “pre-syncope”, the feeling of being almost fainting.
In recent days, due to “persistent episodes of hiccups”, it was time to receive a medical visit, which the STF once again approved.
It contributes to hiccups, fainting, vomiting, hyper and hypotension, intestinal reflux, spots on the skin, mini pneumonia and stab anemia suffered weeks before the 2018 election, repeat the patient’s supporters.
Because of her, in fact, the former president was admitted to the hospital that year to have a colostomy bag removed in the same week that the press reported an alleged corruption scandal in his son Flávio Bolsonaro’s office.
In 2020, the magazine Crusoe reported that the operative in this case deposited checks into the account of Michelle Bolsonaro, at the time first lady. Not even the newspapers had reached the newsstands and Bolsonaro was already removing “bladder stones”.
Previously, fires in the Amazon put Bolsonaro under the fire of public opinion; days later, he went to the hospital to have a “hernia” repaired.
Then, a flood in Bahia killed 25 Brazilians but the then president didn’t even interrupt his vacation. Criticized, he choked on a shrimp and ended up in the hospital.
In the early hours of January 9, 2023, after acolytes vandalized the Praça dos Três Poderes, the former president was hospitalized, in Orlando, with “abdominal pain”.
And, shortly after starring in the jewelry scandal offered by Middle Eastern governments to Brazil, he ended up in the hospital “for tests on the digestive system, intestinal traffic, adhesions, abdominal hernia and reflux”.
The author of this text does not risk saying whether this history is due to physical or psychosomatic problems, hypochondria or migué because since Molière died on stage, in 1673, during the play The Imaginary Patientlearned that you shouldn’t joke about illnesses.
Bolsonaro, who mocked Covid-19, which he called “a little flu” to which he would be immune due to his “history as an athlete”, and who simulated shortness of breath to laugh at those infected, does not learn.
Journalist, correspondent in São Paulo