The miracle of Humberto A couple who spent more than a year in the hospital tells how their day to day Eva sat waiting in a corridor on the fifth floor of the Hospital Universitario A Coruña (Chuac). Waiting to be let go to be with Humberto, her boyfriend. Do not hurry. Know exactly how the times are plant spinal injuries. Because in the year and four months he has learned leads entered hospital routines, has won the confidence of staff and has made friends. The time taken to hospital exceeds by far the average stay of patients Galicians. About 8.3 days in 2012, according to data handled by the Ministry of health. Admitted to long-stay hospital is becoming just a little home. They and their families have had to adapt their lifestyle. We must accept and adapt. I had to park the job, but I am very lucky because they have never given me trouble again, she explains while summarizing his new day. In this plant are many cliques. Upon arrival, who has more time will help you and saying how things work. You make friends. Although now I do not relate much because then you spend bad. Some people listen to you, understand you, but there comes a day when they leave. You are happy because they are discharged, but at the same time is hard because someone who understands what youre telling goes. We have made friends who call us every day, he says. Flat to rent Humberto and Eva live in Cangas. At first she and his mother were left in a room, but as things went for long, they moved to an apartment. After so long, she knows all the shortcuts to go from home to hospital. He says smiling. He has reason to. Many. In 2012 the couple had a motorcycle accident. They traveled together. She did not happened practically nothing. A death he was around. The trauma he suffered caused him what is known as the captivity syndrome (brain is disconnected from the body), recalled the head of the unit, Antonio Sotillo Rodriguez. Humberto had very little chance of recovery, but improved. It was a miracle, acknowledges the specialist. He has managed to swallow, speak and start to move arm. He likes to watch things on the computer, review the messages left on her Facebook and Eva says, I encourage you to study and continue forming through the Red. And it is now waiting to be moved to Barcelona, where he placed diaphragmatic pacemaker that will not so dependent on the respirator that connects every night. Both she and Humbertos mother, who has now returned to Cangas because work has started, it took very hard months. But we did it, says Eva. For Humberto, her family and the attending medical personnel, form a team. Physicians and therapists striving to stimulate and he responds by making small gestures that help you swallow better, to move the arm, wrist ... Its one-thirty. Humberto, which leads isolated from January 10, has finished eating and green mask and robe, shakes his head in front of a mirror, as it tells the therapist. By bringing both isolated time I can not exercise as much as before because I can not go to the gym, he says. He describes his day. I get up, comes the physiotherapist and do exercises, I asean ... There are times when you are more lively and some less, he explains. But more progress is a joy. That feeling of overcoming describes Eve. Sometimes you see people who are depressed because they will not be able to move his legs, but when youre with someone you love and you see that he can not even swallow, ask to one day move his lips. Just to give us a kiss. The day moves, beg to move a hand ... . Humberto spent eight months without speaking. I showed you a few letters of those who use young children. To write a word we were teaching one to one and when I saw the right, moving the eyelids. All that we mentioned in the paper, recalls Eva. I will never forget is the day in which he managed his first full sentence after the accident. I was pointing the letters in the paper and I froze when I read Will you marry me. It thrills. Tears spring to my eyes. He smiles and clarifies that when I was finally able to talk and the first thing I said was I love you. As I remember, the look. At that time all I did was apologize for all the things we had done together, answered back at him. Now the will. On Thursday, as she helped him move his arm, sounded a bolero. It is her dancing. Carpe diem.
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 10:18:28 +0000
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