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Doris Schröder-Köpf survived a serious operation (archive picture)
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In the summer, SPD politician Doris Schröder-Köpf had made public that she was about to have a heart operation.
The procedure now had to be carried out earlier than originally planned, as the 57-year-old told the magazine "Bunte".
Because her health had deteriorated, she was operated on for an aortic valve stenosis - a heart valve defect - instead of the planned operation in January at the end of November.
"The idea that the chest is open, the heart is shut down and you are connected to the heart-lung machine is of course stressful," said Schröder-Köpf about the operation in August.
In the meantime, according to "Bunte", she is already on the mend: Her heart is beating again "independently and normally," she said accordingly.
“I get blood-thinning infusions and have to exercise my lungs with a special device.
But I bravely run through the hospital hallway with my little cart. "
"Holidays without fear of the upcoming surgery"
Schröder-Köpf is evidently relieved to have the operation behind him: she planned the Advent and Christmas time differently, but »now I'm going into the New Year with a huge burden less and can spend the holidays with my family without fear of the upcoming one Spend the operation. "
According to the report, your partner, Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Boris Pistorius, is the only one who is allowed to visit Schröder-Köpf in the hospital due to the corona guidelines.
“He reads every wish in my eyes.
From shaking up the pillows - severe back pain is a well-known consequence of the operation - to bringing my favorite apples with me. "
Doris Schröder-Köpf is the ex-wife of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
The two married in 1997 and separated in 2015.
Their divorce became final in April 2018.
In 2016 it became known that Schröder-Köpf was in a relationship with Pistorius.
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