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Augustine Pichot
27 am 27 years old and his guide
Montana
Hi, I do not like Alonso, I’m 22 years old
and studied international trade
as a boy I always liked the
outdoor activities
when I had the possibility to choose
best mountain guide
one day I was working with my
customers in the mountains like climbing a
hill and and I decided to make a stop for
moisturize at that time I said let’s
stop a second took advantage of remembering
energies eat something we do for the
summit
one of my greatest passions is the
made bicycle cycling route
mountain I had the possibility of
travel twice and cross to chile
one of them was with Augustine many
times when I’m training
people look at me stop and tell me how
do for pedaling wait
interest in this from your point of
view that you enter counting
at that stop to hydrate when from
suddenly I said is five minutes
with something rest assured recover
energies
I need to remove my prosthesis a
second to take a little
perspiration and clients stayed
looking as if they had seen a cougar
good when he answers questions
asks he explained that it was a pretty process
long which began to lose a
common bicycle discover what the
Toe cap that allows me to grab the foot
of the pedal ends up finding what the
lock is a mechanism that allows
hook the shoes on the pedal and
well give the full turn because I say
this
this was left with a single leg turn
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A) Yes
I want you to pay special attention to
how he changed his perspective on our
history did not realize that what
we used prosthetics five years ago
I was working in the field doing
pastures for animals when suddenly
I had to defend the tractor because it
I had stuck an implement when
I descended the attacks came back up
I slipped with oil that was in the
tractor floor
at that moment I fell and the machine with
the one that was working aimed the
leg below the knee
I also fractured the femur first
that I thought at that moment is that I’m going to
die were like 30 minutes waiting
medical assistance and the second thing that
it happened to me is that I was not going to go back to
walk that my career was over
as a guide was over sport
that there is not now a couple that was going to
learn from my parents
all these things was what I understood
disability in 2005 when I had
10 years is playing the ball in the
playground of the school when it
produces a play and a friend unintentionally
he hit me with a kick that caused me a
pain that did not go away with the days
my worried father give me a pediatrician
which diagnosed me that I had
growth problems that there was
nothing to worry about
spend the mornings this pain starts to
intensify simple way problem of
smells of growth if it was not something else
means to the hospital where more in one
radiography and in this one out I had a
stain and it turns out that it is not sarcoma
Cancer
Chemotherapy immediately begins
discarding all possibility leg not
he had another doctor to amputate
because he took the tumor he had
made so big that I could do
metastasis and end my life with just
10 years I started to consider the life of
from another point of view
start to see how to pose as
Go back to play ball with my
playmates with my brother I will leave
outside how to make a child after me
accident the first thing that the
they moved to the hospital more
there’s no final intensive therapy of all
the night only narrates that it was very sad
improve life I would not have everything that I
has happened and how fast it had been and
the other day I was transferred to a hospital
that was closer to my house for
make me operate on the leg and and see
what or means at that time began the
visits
it’s funny how we can
be sharing the same situation
but the fact that we play roles
different we do not have different roles
it makes us have a perspective
different from the same the people who came
to visit me came the people are left me
He knew people who knew I was
hard to find in my house always
I had a phone that was off
more on the mountain with my friends and
they came to see what I ‘m going to cut a
leg
I felt when I’m going to enter that
some form of miami wake for me
sitting on the bed and this what nobody
understood endowed with a smile in the
face because it was one of the moments of
more clarity my life
the people who were coming to visit me
it was an incredible reunion and everything
who was living at that time was
of a joy because it looks like a gift
it seems something that not what not
had and had presented and the
truly it is an extremely happy moment
one of the visits I had in the
hospital and I was lucky to meet
taste
my sister did not know he told him what
it had happened and he came to visit me and
knowing how to please for me the truth was a
change of perspective was to realize
of what a person could get to
do without one leg and how happy you
they can become also Augustine was
the first person that encourages me to
visit in a hospital after a
they have imputed me I did not have the
possibility that someone is me
approached that situation and told me
that it was imputed that it was you
It is missing a leg that you can
do and what can not be done
I feel that if there had been someone
I would have advanced my process of
relive one of the memories that
I have this re in the hospital is
laying in bed and looking at the
watch is watching how the minutes
they went with andy
– finishing the minutes that were missing
to go out to recess
if you are not counting the minutes so that
ended session ends
chemotherapy and be able to go back to my house
that moment unleashed a lot of
new feelings bunch of
sensations which I mission
experience what is the vacuum what
is bottoming out and what is not to find
a meaning life at that time
It was a moment of full awareness of the
moment in which I started to be
conscious and say nothing I’m here ready
that is now to continue there was the promoter
main to my first engine where I
encouraged to want to walk again there
to do the things he did again
way a child is born coming out of this
stage
I started the young man I started the faculty
I started meeting all my classmates
we started to change a lot of
words that he does is that he does not
worked not from which school venice and I
agreement the situation of being closed
with a partner you ask me you have
girlfriend still have the table oea you
missing as back does not lack anything is
a person just as heard that is
complete
to me it happened to me something like that everything
what I wanted to do when I feel what
first I wanted to give back to
climb the climb for me something very
important because at the moment that I
I share with my friends are in the
mountain take me some good mates and
make strength as what it was what I
more I wanted to do that moment so I did not
wait to have prostheses but I went with
my cane is the club where he climbed and I
I met the manager of playing
an older person
I wonder I asked the agreement to
He asked me to go up for his
condition or escalate the truth that I do not
he asked at that time and a
Very comfortable silence and the first thing you
I happen to the agreement means I have left
know the truth that made me think
much in the fact of saying how many times
let things the rest of us
says what he thinks
It makes us stop doing things that neither
even we understand them where born
all this from the zero moment
the perspective we do not acquire just to
settle our parents when we started
to be aware of the educate had
a lot of situations or at least
us in which they approach us
child and they ask us what happened then more
others approach and how he loves families
to guys with a robotic leg and
immediately the father grabs him
move the situation away as if nobody is anything
I had passed
in my opinion if they let that guy
Remove the doubt at least with me from
count since something that can happen to you in
life and that is not bad
would show that you can do it not
You can do sports that you can not
would show what I can do with the
prosthesis something like this
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to me what happened to me with the children
it was something like I do not really have
two sisters smaller than in the
most feel no time took
to the hospital because now that it was not a
very nice place
then I meet up with her was my
house when I went back the smallest one
called julia and had at that time two
years and the biggest this morning the
second I was five years old when I was
entering the hallway of my house with
my crutches came out of the hospital
I found diana garrigosa
had counted
At that time we found the
hallway I do not look at the face
He looked at me and said ‘I’m fine
cortita
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the truth that for me was incredible and the
second thing that happened to me is that I was
with the youngest with julia we are
watching TV he was sitting in the armchair
I get a lot of impression they looked
because I just got the points
for me it was something like I did not want
nor look julia we were in an armchair
with the phone he approached me he gave me a
hug looked at me and gave me a kiss on the
world
for me it was one of the moments of more
tenderness my life really there I gave myself
realize that we are not born discriminating that
we only learn how I told them
Agustin
we made a crossing to chile we were
everything necessary planning had
to take to be fighting for 15 days and
be able to cross to Chile at the moment
we were in chile we are in a city
very heavy of say with other saddlebags
with the tent with everything
we needed in the middle of the climb
We are giving everything and he passed us a
very light truck on the side of
the truck stopped like the 200
meters and like we looked at each other and said
here is a problem comes suddenly
came down a gentleman that the first thing he did
come to hug us to congratulate us
ask us where we were and are from
Argentines here we are going to make the crossing to
Chile and the Lord , the first thing that we
he said is true he did not know that you could
to do that
how did they lose so this
person who got out of the truck a
person also imputed and never in his
life had been a bicycle so
we are not only united by our
accusations and if our
perspective the way of seeing things
that for one reason or another
we end up today working together
doing activities together and watching a
lot of experiences together my
accident and taste disease did not remove
lots of possibilities but really
if you do not have the conscience and the attitude
right you can see even in the worst
crisis and the opportunities and those
opportunities did not arise because we
missing the leg did not arise because
we went out to look for the ones that today what
today we wanted to share with Augustine
distribute
growth start living life
otherwise start to see all the
situations of life with other eyes
If we had not been on the verge of
feel alone or a situation nearby
to death or that someone does not try to
different and me the situations more not
we would have liked to raise where it is going
to be put our gaze is not going to
be where our
values the values that we want
rescue from life being that for
can have acquired that new
perspective can change a leg
today life for me every second is a
gift and I suggest you think about
life as a card game in the
that we do not always get the best
letters but it’s in us
now the letters that did not touch nor which
best game that we can the greatest
limitation with which we deal with our
disability but with the eyes of the
disability society the
perspective
that’s why today we just create their
own management
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