hojas/hojas/20220705.md

fecha
2022-07-05

• Cerrar actas CDS
• Enviar a Dylan sus errores
• Revisar ese email de la UPF donde parece que me quieren chutar
• Ordenar despacho
• Hacer escrito para Thije
• Sacar pasta de Nexo y Coinbase
• Llevar traje a la tintoreria

Ayer hablé por teléfono con Thije. Me informó de que ya hemos terminado el baile de médicos y que por fin podemos preparar nuestra propuesta de cierre del caso a la otra parte. Para rematar el asunto, Thije quiere preparar un texto explicando mis miserias para elaborar la parte "inmaterial" de la reclamación. Así que me toca hacer un resumen.

During the week of the accident:

• Overall, it was a tremendously stressing week. I had just recently left a promising job and a comfortable life back in Madrid to pursue my Master's degree at UvA, with all that comes with moving to a new country. It was a strong bet on my professional and personal future. And then, all of a sudden, I had cast from foot to hip which left me pretty much useless and with the threat of potentially requiring an important surgery in my knee. This was a heavy blow which caused a lot of anxiety.
• My girlfriend had moved with me to the Netherlands with plans of pursuing a job and developing professionally. Once the accident happend, she had to drop her own plans to help me out, since I needed help 24/7 for my daily tasks and to handle the whole situation. This was also very stressful for her and generated a lot of frustration since my accident also forced her to change plans. Once I was back in Barcelona and underwent surgery:
• Before and after the surgery, I stayed at my parents place. Since I did not having the economical means to have a place of my own both in Amsterdam and Barcelona, and there was a lot of uncertainty regarding how my recovery would go and how long it would take. This put a toll on my parents, who were forced to adapt around my return (I had been away from home for years already, so it pretty much felt like being a child once again, in a bad way). My disabilities before and after the surgery meant a lot of effort and collaboration from their side, including sacrifices such as spending their vacation days to help me out.
• Keeping up with my studies was a serious challenge. My master's programme was designed to be followed on-campus, so I had to juggle my different courses the best I could to not fail. When I ask the student advisors at UvA what could we do to keep my studies alive, their honest advice was to probably have a break and trying against next year. Had I done this, I would have had terrible consequences from a financial (I was investing my savings and giving up on the salary I could earn in my professional field to get this degree) and professional point of view. In the end, and with a lot of hardword, I managed to succeed in my studies. But it took going the extramile, and I still think that my learning experience was severely harmed directly for three months as a result of the accident.
• My girlfriend moved back to Barcelona with me after the accident. We had been living together for years and consider ourselves a family, so she gave up the opportunities in the Netherlands to be close to me and help me out during my recovery. So, the accident hampered her own life plans as well.
• After the surgery, I spend weeks and months investing effort in my recovery with the constant uncertainty of what would be the final result for my knee. Both doctors and physical therapists agreed it was a nasty fracture and that there could be consequences. I had to come to terms with the idea that my leg would not be the same and accepting this reality was not easy nor pleasant.

Once I was back in Amsterdam:

• I went back to Amsterdam as soon as I could because I could only keep up with my studies remotely so far. This meant that, when I was back in Amsterdam, I still needed two crutches to move anywhere. This meant several weeks of a very difficult household and university life, since simple activities like taking a bus or going to the supermarket were 10 times harder with the crutches.
• After my remote period, I had to do extra work to catch up with my studies. After being away, there were exams that I had to delay and classes that I could not attend to, so I had to do a lot of work just to be up to date with my programme and pass my courses.
• After all the troubles we had between september and november, my girlfriend was very discouraged about moving back to Amsterdam. She had to take a temporary job in Barcelona to support herself financially during my recovery and dropping that again to come back to Amsterdam and starting over from scratch felt like a huge effort for her. She decided to stay temporarily in Barcelona, and we had to be separated for many months. This was a hard time for our relationship.

Nowadays:

• I am left with a bitter taste on what would have happened, migration wise, if the accident had not happened. I chose studying in Amsterdam because I really liked the city and the country, and I had plans on staying and working after my studies. But with my accident and the COVID situation afterwards, I had to constantly stay over in Barcelona, and I feel like I never really grew true roots in Amsterdam. Sometimes I wonder what would life had been if I had stayed there, and kind of regret how things went.
• My recovery is finished according to the doctor and physical therapist, but I can obviously feel how my leg is not back to what it was. The medical details are all on the report, but besides that, there is a strong feeling of frustration that because of the accident, I have to deal with a worse log. It feels like I was unfairly robbed and someone replaced my leg with a worse one. Knowing it will never be the same is a sad feeling.
• Since the accident, I have generally become more fearful of activities that imply a physical risk. I'm not the same when I go cycling, running and other activities. I am now very aware of what it means to go through an injury like the one I lived, and I find myself frequently changing my plans and not doing things because I don't want to risk having a similar situation again. This is something I wouldn't have thought before, but I guess the idea now simply sticks with me.

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