Oh my God, that was how it was then to be free. It was so not realizing that he could move! It was like going fast among people, lightly, without thinking and above all with Stefano. Not thanks to Stefano, together with Stefano! Not ‘pushed by operated by managed by’. Running light without paying attention to anything looks there as they stroll as they fool around as they run as they chat as they look at the sea distracted. They do not notice that they can move. Was that the same for me then? It was so normal, free and fast… Here I am crying. Holy shit this time I cry loudly. People don’t know it out there behind my sunglasses, with the Rimini sun and the wind in your face, with all the mess of the seafront … It was like that, then! Let me feel a little bit of that life. And then we are together, me and him, and we go wherever we want. For once, let’s go wherever we want.
I have always been easy to tears in recent years, call me fragile, but it is difficult to make people understand what it means to regain autonomy with a particular aid, with an adapted sport, with anything that makes you fly and go fast. But this time it was different.
Because for the first time it was me and Ste together as two children. No more I who pity nor he who breaks his back for me, no more “let me go and see there for a moment, will you take me please? “.
This time thanks to that trabiccolo you see in the picture we run together, safely without effort. We discovered another Rimini, we who, let’s face it, were not satisfied with Rimini, we who in our previous life had traveled half the world. Instead Rimini is a wonderful historical city, green, urban parks, roads, traffic, bridges, rivers, light, people.
How life changing the right aid, huh? An innovative aid that makes you want to leave the house and see the world again. Of those that make you resent on vacation together again. Together, for God! No more caregivers and sick people, just a couple having fun. Rapid. Safe. Light.
We had just discovered the power-assisted tandem bike for driver and wheelchair in Foligno near Perugia. Stefano found it in Rimini, free rental thanks to the Municipality. A Dutch company designed it together with other models, just the Dutch could think about it… It has long since arrived in Italy but we didn’t know it, like good ‘perched’ Perugians.
Instead, look, this wonderful toy can be used anywhere, at least wherever it is available. And we won’t let it get away. Because the will to live, believe me, is also found like this.
–Me, Stefano and multiple sclerosis: we are also something else
-I, Stefano and multiple sclerosis: violated intimacy
-I, Stefano and multiple sclerosis: contagion
Source: Vanity Fair
