Santi legs disobey orders coming from his brain. Do so from the early hours of 7 to 8 July, hours after head Puyol batiera tuck Germany and Spain in his first final of a World Cup. Santi was launched headlong into a source without gauge its depth. Noticed how he started C7 vertebrae. Today we learn to live in the Guttmann Institute. Enric, retired partner of Barca, she showered on 10 June in a hotel in Madrid, a city he had attended a course on safety and health. Slipped and hit his back on the edge of the tub. She felt, as the water flooded the bathroom, I could not get up. Today we learn to live in the Guttmann Institute.
The hospital opened in 1965, specializes in the treatment of spinal and brain injuries. Is a bubble, a world within the world, a small city without barriers. That's where Santi, 19, and Enric, 64, start from scratch, parking and assimilating life experiences with new concepts to open a new chapter in their books. Sitting in a wheelchair opens the door of his room the night of Champions Day at the Camp Nou. Barcelona, Copenhagen. Enric, Barça, Santos, Madrid. "I miss the countryside, making sandwiches and watch the games with my wife. It was a ritual that lasted five hours, between when we left and came back, "says Enrico, who expects to be relocated in an area that is accessible to the chair. "Villa just did not materialize," he interrupted his colleague, shortly before Messi mark his first goal for the Danes. "Cover your face, tápatela."
Santi covers her with his huge hat while wearing the fingers of both hands to his mouth to moisten. It is a tic that has acquired a 'gift' for the many hours spent pushing his chair. Puyol is the player who most appreciate the club. Although his exploits with Spain, indirectly, it will take to Guttmann. "Besides being a good defense, has the face to be." Santi, Mataró, remember the promise made and fulfilled, "I said if we won the final, I put his name on the jersey. And I will. " "What are you saying man? And yet you want to continue celebrating? Also, how do you put your name on a shirt of Spain? "Reproached his companion.
Accusing, provoke, so hurtful joke is one of the routines that patients in daily practice Guttmann. "It's always easy going, eh. Besides soccer, we have learned to look for this stuff to forget what we have here. This is a very particular world, is like the military: everyone experiences it in their own way, "says Enrico, who eats about 15 or 16 pills daily. Santi follows his own: "I saw the final here, I was dying. The truth is that if we had not won the final if I were mad, "he jokes, making use of an irony that used at the discretion:" He returned to the plaza Italy (where he was paralyzed) to make a bomb. No, seriously, if Madrid would win something or Spain, but would be careful not stepped on me. "
See life from a wheelchair is to see life from a different place. Perspective changes, physical and mental. The focus is different in every way. For Enric, at 64 years, the only objective is "not a burden to anyone." 25 years ago at 39, spent five days in the ICU because of a heart attack: "That if I move, I learned not to suffer for nothing, not even for this. Of course, for my heart problems should I go to the electric chair. The goal is to make the minimum effort to stay alive. " And come every fortnight to Camp Nou. Santi wants to see the glass half full: "Four days ago I had transferred the property bar. Now think about studying medicine and why not, work one day in Guttmann. " Outside, the world is different from that lived out there.
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