Marta Bustos Góngora She is a Barcelona writer who is a clear example of overcoming. His main work has been the one that had to do with his worst experience at a personal level, which is titled as ‘When I lost my brown eyes’. At 24, Marta suffered an accident in the United States and ended up riding a campaign Based on monetary donations by the public, which aimed get the best treatments to heal.
His life gave A 180 degree turnaround In 2020. while I was in Seattlecity where she lived with her current husband of American originthe writer was a fans of the production of natural cosmetics. He made toothpaste, detergents and soaps, something that may seem of the most harmless. Nevertheless, While one day he was making a batch of soaps, the mixture exploded in his face.
A domestic accident for which he lost his eyes
The consequences were truly severesince the glasses he was wearing was skipped and ended burning the face. This chemical reaction also came into contact with His eyes, which caused him to be “blind immediately”as reported to the environment The voice of health.
Subsequently, They transferred her to the hospital And, because of the shock, I did not know how to digest what was happening at that time. In fact, during the first 24 hours, I was sure that “I was going to die of pain”. Inevitably, that were “The worst hours of my life”. The diagnosis revealed that it was “very serious” what had happened to him and whose cause was The manipulation of caustic sodaa Very corrosive chemical element.
Doña Letizia’s recognition
Being housed outside of Spain, “I could not access medical insurance and being in the hospital, as a desperate measure, we did A collection campaign of funds “. This generated the collection of a lot of money in the short term, which made it possible receive the best possible treatment. In addition, from there he began to write his book, a story that also He gave it to Mrs. Letizia.
Currently, Marta has regained vision in her right eye Thanks to a keratoprosthesis operation (artificial cornea implant), But on the left it still continues without vision. You can see colors, shapes, expressions and read texts, as you can also have your Face -creating facet in social networkss. One of the most prominent themes commented has been about that Comparison between Barcelona and Madridtwo big Spanish cities.
“In Madrid you will never beat us with accessibility”
In one of her videos, this Catalan writer explains that “Many people are outraged when in Barcelona or other cities do not whistle traffic lights”something that can trigger in a negative perception in terms of accessibility. The counterpart of Madrid is that these devices yes they make noisewhich is true help for people with visual disabilities or for those people with a sense of minor orientation.
However, Marta’s opinion regarding this is clear. Reveals the following: “Let me tell you that In Madrid you will beat us With water, you will beat us with clean streets, but never with accessibility “. Ensures that Barcelona is much better exposing the following situation: encourages the audience to put a blind person in the situation of a blind person.
“Give pleasure and people flip”
“Imagine that you live next to one of those traffic lights and that a person with visual disabilities or a cane user passes. Imagine being listening to a beep constantly. In the end, accessibility has to be comfortable for everyone”he explains. Those locations in which this sound is not active, as is the case in Barcelona, it works as follows: “They give us a mandit that activates some main traffic lights.”
The procedure is as follows: the user gives command and “The traffic light like, hey, I know you are here”. Once it gets green, it is when it begins to whistle, something that Marta indicates “What’s pleasure and People flip“. Besides, Not all traffic lights have this technologysince they could error in those locations where there are two or more close. Just, “The great avenues are usually”.