The wife of the bus 64

He returned to visit the museum of Pedralbes in Barcelona, one day last January. Volunteer for a group of retirees, Montse Ventura returned with his group in the bus 64 still talking.

A woman does not take his eyes off him until he was approached and asked to speak with her apart. She apologized for the intrusion and said he had been watching and I recommend having an analytic. He took a role and scored two, after telling him that there was still time. The stranger told her he had had two cases in his office with the same signs that Montse: upper lip, nose, hands, feet ...

Montse was so surprised that she asked his name and the stranger got out at the next stop.

When this woman of 55, a former teacher, widow and mother of two daughters came a month after a gynecological examination, he asked the two analytical include the stranger had recorded on paper. The review was fine, except the two orders by the unknown values.

An MRI spotted a small tumor in a 7 mm gland, which is full of nerves near the carotid artery. He recommended surgery sooner, as it might have bleeding in the brain or blindness.

Montse had doubts, because his youngest daughter was getting married in September and the operation was to take place in June. But finally decided surgery, and all went well. Montse unable to attend the wedding of his daughter.

Last October, Montse sent a letter to the newspaper La Vanguardia, in order to find his particular guardian angel and to thank him.

A few hours later, he gave the woman who probably saved his life. This is an endocrinologist in Barcelona, Maria Gloria PB, 60, who was quite surprised by the commotion caused.

This became clear in Montse expert signs of acromegaly, a rare disease that causes a tumor in the pituitary, resulting in an excessive production of growth hormone, and therefore exaggerated enlarged tissues, such as nose, lower lip, eyebrows, hands, feet ...

Finally the two women could talk on the phone. And plan to stay for coffee when passing a few days.