GAME
OVER
Last Wednesday, a boy came to school and talked to us
about the risks of driving a vehicle if you’ve drunk or you haven’t slept for a
long time and also what happens when you take drugs and then you want to drive.
“Game Over” is the name of a campaign to prevent accidents on young people, so
then we take the necessary security measures if we drive a car or a motorbike.
Then, the boy who was called Ángel explained us his
terrible story and why he had the accident which made him be quadriplegic now.
His story was a bit like this: He went with some friends to Pamplona, because
they wanted to celebrate the well-known San Fermines, he was the only one of
his friends with car so he was driving all around the city all the day, Ángel discovered
that his friends just wanted him as a driver, so he got angry and took his car,
he decided to go home at night driving alone to Badalona, that was a crazy
idea, so… sadly, he fall asleep and crashed with a big wall he doesn’t remember
anything since then. He spent a month in a anxious coma for his family, when he
woke up, he couldn’t even talk or breath for himself, he didn’t any reason to
live.
The injuries started to decrease, and he could talk to
his parents and eat liquid food. He ended as a quadriplegic young boy that
won’t be able to walk again. Clara Urquiza made an interesting question, she
asked, how his life had changed since then, and I think that was a bit emotive
question because he told us that everything has changed, at first he couldn’t
do anything for himself, but now he lives alone and he does many things alone,
but he cannot go to the bathroom alone so, a medical assistant goes to his
house four times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday).
Finally, I would like to say that even though Ángel is
living a complete life because he told us, my aunt has been going on a wheelchair
since she was 4 years old because of the Polio issue, and she is now 86 and she
always tells me that of course she would like to be able to walk again, but
that was the life that she has got and she is really happy, so I think these
extraordinary people know how to distinguish what is important and what is not
in their life, Ángel is a person who has an amazing story about effort and hard
work.
Gerard Ferreiro
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