Eva Moral, Override on wheels

Her smile and vitality brighten the rehabilitation room of the Paraplegic Hospital of Toledo. It has been little more than two months here, but Eva has earned the affection and the admiration of all. "She has always been a fighter," says Rosario, her mother, who has not been missing a day from the accident to be with her since the accident. "From the first moment Eva was the one who gave encouragement to everyone. The hospital gym opens at 9 and they will have to give the key because it is the first one here and stays until 14.00 hours giving To the body, "she says.

This Madrilenian, who as a child made ballet, then athletics and for two years practiced the triathlon with Valdemoro's Tri-Val club, was born again on September 29. "I signed up for a cyclist route through the sierra of Madrid. It was a normal day, what happens is that it started raining and going down the port of la Morcuera I went a bit on the bike. Ravine and stopped the blow with the back, "he says without losing his smile.
Seven meters of fall left him as a sequel a spinal cord injury. "I was fully aware of gravity because when I touched my legs I did not feel them," he explains. From there she was evacuated to the 12 de Octubre Hospital in Madrid where she was informed immediately that she was going to stay in a wheelchair. "I know, but how are my parents?" She replied. "I was terribly afraid of how they would have taken it," she recalls.

She was 20 days in the UVI and 15 more hospitalized and after receiving the discharge she was transferred to the Paraplegics Hospital of Toledo, where she will remain for about six months. The mornings dedicates them to the rehabilitation. "In his case, being a low back injury, we strengthen the trunk and the upper limbs. Now he is getting up with the bittors," says Fernando Lopez, one of the hospital's physiotherapists.

In the afternoons, he is taught to drive the wheelchair deftly and then to practice sports, although these days he has a scar and the doctor is forbidden. Eva twists the gesture because if there is something she likes is precisely the sport activity.
"If it had not been because I like it so much the sport would have made it psychologically worse. It's true that you suddenly think: 'And now what?' I will not be able to take my life from before, I can not be 13 hours outside of me House to work ... To dress me, to take a shower or for everything in your daily life takes five minutes, now I'm late. I have to take it more calmly, "she says.
He acknowledged that he had "many days of downturn." The legs at the beginning I could not even touch them because it gave me until I was furious, and now I have them accepted, I suppose it is normal and human, I gave all my bikes because I did not want to see them when I'm going to be able to continue to do the sport I liked, triathlon.I'm going to be able to swim, ride a bike and run, although Now on wheels, "she explains.