GAME OVER. Meritxell D. (1r BATX B)

GAME OVER

Last week, on Wednesday, October 15th, a guy from the 'Institut Guttmann' came to our school and talked about the prevention of irreversible damage to the central nervous system: spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury.

This man explained that he had had a car accident and has stayed in a wheelchair forever. The reason of the accident was that he was angry with his friends because he thought he was being used as a taxi driver. He decided to return home, without thinking that two days ago he had not slept practically anything. On his way home, the accident happened, he fell asleep. He spent a month in a coma and a year in the hospital doing rehab. At first, he raised questions as: why me?, why living? But gradually, he saw that he had to try to work not only for him but for his parents, sister, family and friends who went to see him so badly.

His accident was caused by fatigue, but many others are produced by going under the influence of alcohol, drugs or lack of caution. This guy repeated during the talk several times: What is worth a few minutes late or being killed?

Besides talking of spinal injuries and brain injuries and explaining his story, we watched a video where he and three other appeared. One was a girl who was 18 and she went to celebrate, with her partner, she had passed the selectivity and they had an accident, she was in a wheelchair, then another boy who was coming home and gave a curve too speed, lost his balance and fell, with such a bad luck that was also in a wheelchair. And finally a 19 year old girl, when he was beginning being a model went to a party and had the misfortune of having an accident. The life of all them changed in that moment.

MERITXELL DOMÈNECH

1r BATX B