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Joop Braakhekke emerging from a quintuple bypass surgery. The former TV cook is positive in life and take to his surprise a more home life. “I never thought my friend Wim and I would sit so cozy together on the couch.”
Joop with his friend Wim. © ANP. Joop Braakhekke (73) grabs his phone there and apologizes already. ,, Terrible, I’m getting myself back on, ” he says as he shows a picture of a wound on his leg. ,, The doctors have used veins from my leg to make a bypass. That wound did not heal, that was such a misery. Eventually he has closed by a heavy course of antibiotics, but it still stings. ”
The former TV cook sits there quietly at his apartment in the heart of Amsterdam. Classical music in the background, a pile of magazines and books on the table. He is much at home now he is recovering from a quintuple bypass surgery last August. ,, I think suddenly love to be home. If the weather is nice, I throw open the balcony doors and I look so out of the Vondelpark. My friend Wim (small photo) is less at home. Capricorn zodiac sign and if he is very fond of his freedom. He goes his own way, but we do eat together and we sit together on the couch at home in front of the tube, ” says the culinary beast, though he annoys them so much to all flatness who comes along on TV. ,, And to 24Kitchen I can not look good, because then I do get slightly jealous. ”
Wedding
the time Joop his restaurant and life work Le Garage ran – 1.5 years ago he sold two-thirds of the shares – he was almost always on the spree. He never expected that they now so enjoy life together. ,, It is, even now I am more at home, very harmonious between us. Actually better than I thought, ” says Braakhekke, who has never been married to his friend. ,, By marrying our steadfast. The advantage of being gay, is freedom. That you should give each other and if it’s good, you that freedom both. With us it is already 45 years quite well. ”
Houvast
Wim his footing, Joop hit last summer bravely major surgery. Braakhekke was already tired for a while. Fixed the wake of a cold, he thought, and hit no further heed. Even when he got on Vlieland load during a cycle of palpitations and a swollen throat, he dismissed it. A few days later, he just walked across the deck of his boat (“I had nothing done) and protested his body back so violently. ,, Okay, maybe I should just past my cardiologist. It was completely wrong again, I was admitted immediately. ”
,, I have not had time to scare them, as soon as I lay under the knife. I just thought ‘why should this happen to me? ” and I worried about my mother. I visit her every weekend and now she was also another year – it was 104 – but I was shackled to the hospital bed. I have not told my mother immediately. She is semi-demented and then they would just scare death. ”
He made the excuse that he was trapped by bad weather on Vlieland. ,, I informed her later, but when she took over her shoulders. I sat there again, so it will be good. ”
Condition
Meanwhile Joop builds his condition again on. He toils on the cross trainer and goes with his personal trainer quick walk in the Vondelpark. ,, I had a good shape for my age. Now I have less energy, but I find that it gets better. ”
At home, he is working on a book about Le Garage, which consists on April 1 25 years. He received stars like Grace Jones, Mick Jagger, Dame Edna, Goldie Hawn and Joan Collins. ,, It was an honor to cook for people. ”
It had a hair gescheeld or star chef had his anecdotes about Le Garage can not retell. In the hospital showed that his arteries were 99 percent clogged. ,, If it lasts long enough, it just keeps on, ” he says soberly. ,, I Feel let down by my body? No, not at all. I was warned of the most amazing psychic states. There was even at one point a psychiatrist beside my bed. Needless. I’m just glad my heart again. I’m positive my future. I am not abandoned, it is just hereditary. My mother or a strong heart, but my father did not. ”
Nursing care
He has to own than say no trauma on the upcoming death gotten. ,, The death I find a very difficult subject, but it’s more about the fact that I’m going to lose my mother. Not because I’m scared to death itself. I’m afraid of getting old. Where should I go if I am helpless ” as he cares for his mother Loek – every weekend he drives to Hindeloopen to care for her – that Wim and he can not expect someone
We ,,. have child nor crow. And the elderly can also now expect nothing more. There is so cut back on that old people are neglected. I hope I go earlier because Wim’ll be fine. I can be very difficult to be alone. ”
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