Nose burst, blood transfusion, circulatory collapse - Brings drummer Christian Blum in the hospital.
"It happened when I was just after the concert at the zoo bridge," Blum told us from his hospital bed in the University Clinic in Bonn: "Suddenly my blood flowed from his nose, such quantities. How pierced with a pig. "
Blum had two diapers in the backseat. He held it in his face, tried to disconnect the bloodstream. "I had no way to stop there," says the musician. In shock, he runs his own home in Bonn. Hospital.
First stop: St. Elisabeth. "From midnight until two have clock in the morning trying to curb the flow of blood," he says. In vain. Then he is transported to the university clinic. Collapsed there. Receives due to massive blood loss, transfusion.
In February he had surgery on his nose: it has genetically determined cartilage loss. A surgical scar had burst open - as the diagnosis. On Friday morning, then the OP. On Friday evening, he paused at the Christmas concert in the flora. "But on Saturday I will be there again. I'm checking with the doctors, "he says.
Band Brings colleague Peter is concerned: "But the Christian, who is a horse. He has played with a broken arm and leg. "
