Cesar Navas
Spain, Santiago de Compostela.
Hello, I’m Cesar Antonio Navas
I was assaulted and shot in my neck on the 1st of july 2009, the bullet caliber 38 only fractured the spinous process of the C5 vertebra and as a miracle didn’t touch the spinal cord, however, it was swollen due to the blast and instantly I lost sensitivity and motor activity from the neck down.
I was operated 3 times and spend 9 weeks in intensive care.
It was a drastic change in my life. I stopped my work as a comercial diver, my studies in mechanical engineering and computer design as well my sports and hobby’s (wakeboarding, kayaking, diving, swimming, mountain biking, down hill, rapel, cannioning).
From that moment I decided to start my rehabilitation. I started to see the positive side of what had happened to me, I had survived! This thoughts helped me from the beginning to give everything in my therapy and in the recovery. Everything I am today I owe to the team who have been with me in the good, the bad and the worst times.