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A Life for Living - Paulina Krakowska
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Video on 5 cancer survivors (different types of cancer, MS etc.) telling their story on how they survived cancer, what difficulties they had to face during treatment and how the disease changed their life. This video was produced for the launch event of the conference: Partnership against cancer and the objective was to create emotion and intrigue the audience to act in the fight against cancer.
I remember I was five years old. I had problems with my eye. I went to the
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doctor with my mum, but the diagnosis was wrong as they said it was lazy eye
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syndrome. At the Center for Child Health they said it was cancer
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situating in my optic nerve and that the operation could deform me, deform my face.
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The operation wouldn't have been so frightening if it hadn't been done by a
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doctor from abroad. He came over because he had experience in these kinds of
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operations. It was too expensive for my mum to stay in London. It cost around
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600 pounds per day and we couldn't afford to do it there. When we sold the
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house it was just enough for the surgeon who came to Poland from abroad.
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As for my eye, it stopped reacting to light. Since the optic nerve was cut my
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pupil no longer responded to light. The right side of my face was swollen after
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the surgery. I was 11 years old when I had another operation. My mum was
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really frightened before this one, but I kept telling her nothing would happen.
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I was wrong because after this operation I had problems with my memory. They hurt
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my eye muscles, so my eyelid became droopy and the brain liquid leaked into
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my body. My body was in pain and it took me a long time to become well again.
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My schoolmates reacted in a very strange way to my new look.
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They looked at me as if I was strange. They laughed at me, but they were also
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afraid of me and the first nicknames appeared. They called me Cyclops, Sickie.
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I was very disappointed with them. I felt more sadness from the lack of
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understanding of my schoolmates than from my disease.
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So I got help from my mum and from my close family, from my mum and my sister.
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They told me that although I'm different, I still am who I am.
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They kept me strong and thanks to them I have a very strong character today.
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When I was 16 I got pregnant after my first time and I decided to keep the baby,
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my little sweetheart, because I couldn't imagine hurting such a small life inside me.
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In a way I was lucky because who knows if I could ever have a child again or if I'll
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meet someone who would like to have children with me.
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I work as a volunteer with children who suffer from diseases, not just cancer.
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As I know what children can feel and what kind of help they need.
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I live as I live. I'm optimistic about the world and people.
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The most important thing is I've met people who treat me very well,
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who have been with me from the beginning of this illness and we still see each other now.
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I have the people I need around me and I don't need to have a lot of friends, two or three are enough.
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The illness I went through gave me a lot of life experience.
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I look at life from a totally different perspective today, not at the fun, drugs or alcohol side of it.
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I just want to have a family, finish school and find a good job.
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I wish that children would never have to suffer like I did.
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- Idioma/s:
- Niveles educativos:
- ▼ Mostrar / ocultar niveles
- Nivel Intermedio
- Autor/es:
- The European Union
- Subido por:
- EducaMadrid
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
- Visualizaciones:
- 1284
- Fecha:
- 17 de febrero de 2010 - 13:58
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Enlace Relacionado:
- European Commission
- Duración:
- 05′ 30″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 1.76:1
- Resolución:
- 480x272 píxeles
- Tamaño:
- 26.92 MBytes
