Mihai Neşu: “People dream that they can fly. My subconscious has adapted. At night I dream I can walk”
Today, the second part of the interview with Mihai Neşu, the footballer who has been paralysed for 4 months, from his shoulders down. The interview took place at De Hoogstraat clinic in Utrecht. His remarkable stories describe a world that is as cruel as it is generous
Yes, you’re right to think it! You’re not saying it, but you’re thinking it: is the journalist embellishing everything?! Mihai Neşu’s story sounds like that of an idealised model. A 28-year-old sportsman suffered a freak accident while training 4 months ago. He can only move his head and his right arm, even that with limitations. And yet, he carries his suffering with lucid optimism.
Is it a rosy version of life which was achieved through journalistic image surgery? No! It’s not like that! Or at least Mihai Neşu is not like that.
I’m not embellishing or leaving out any details of the life of the footballer who has played for Steaua, FC Utrecht and the national team, the way I’ve come to know them - incompletely, of course. I’m writing about a life led anonymously. Mihai is registered at the clinic under a funny Dutch surname in order to keep him out of the public eye! I’m writing about a life in which Mihai stays in touch with the others via an iPhone which he controls with his mouth, “a suggestion of mine, which was put into practice by the guy in charge of Innovative and Technical Service at the clinic”. There is such a thing!
And if there is a person employed by the hospital to deal with innovations for the paralysed patients, then you will have a better understanding of each of the stories Mihai Neşu has chosen to tell the readers of Gazeta Sporturilor.
Talking of embellishment - yesterday we received a message from a reader in Lond
