"O doente do quarto 129
Quando começamos no jornalismo vivemos obcecados pelos factos, pelas notícias. Depois percebemos que o melhor que pode acontecer a um jornalista é ter uma boa história para contar. E eu tinha uma grande história: um homem que teve um acidente de trabalho ficou paraplégico e vive há 34 anos num hospital português. Embora tivesse ficado acamado com apenas 18 anos, continua a receber visitas da terra. Por vezes, até se organizam excursões. O acidente roubou-lhe a juventude, uma futura família e a possibilidade de ver o mundo em directo. A televisão é a sua ligação à realidade fora das paredes do hospital; o Benfica, o único prazer. Mas o doente do quarto 129 não perdeu a vontade de viver. Mais: continua a preocupar-se primeiro com os outros e só depois com ele próprio.
Um dia a equipa do hospital resolveu fazer uma “vaquinha” e comprar um leitor de vídeo para oferecer ao doente mais antigo da casa – já sobreviveu a vários directores. Ficou muito emocionado, mas guardou-o para oferecer aos pais. “Ainda não tinham”, justificou-se.
A vida do doente do quarto 129 é uma daquelas histórias com muitas histórias dentro. Queria tanto contá-la! Pedi as devidas autorizações e toda a gente estava de acordo com a minha visita ao hospital. Todos menos o doente do quarto 129. Apelei aos mais variados recursos: médicos, enfermeiros, irmãos. E nada.
Mas um repórter que se preze não desiste à primeira nega, nem à segunda, nem... enfim, não desiste. Andei a adiar porque não queria ser mais um problema na vida do doente do quarto 129.
Finalmente, ganhei coragem. Entrei no quarto e tratei logo de explicar ao que vinha, para logo acrescentar que me iria embora imediatamente se fosse essa a sua vontade. Respondeu-me com um forte abanar de cabeça. Nem pensar. Fez questão que me aproximasse. Corte de cabelo impecável, boa aparência, jovem para os seus 52 anos. Na garganta, um tubo que o ajuda a respirar. O diálogo não é fácil. Mas o doente do quarto 129 não se importa e conversa amenamente comigo. Da sua paixão pelo Benfica, que já lhe valeu a visita de várias estrelas ao hospital; da sua concordância com a eutanásia, embora se recuse a imaginá-la para si próprio; da dedicação da equipa de enfermagem, que é como uma família; das várias gerações de técnicos que já passaram por si – alguns até lhe entregavam os filhos enquanto iam trabalhar; da solidariedade de amigos e família que tem sentido durante todos estes anos.
Só havia um senão: o doente do quarto 129 não queria dar entrevistas. Quando me despedi perguntei-lhe se poderia voltar. Ainda não tinha desistido de o convencer. Respondeu-me que sim, com um sorriso.
Nessa noite jogava o Benfica. Antes de me deitar quis saber – coisa inédita para mim – o resultado do jogo. Os encarnados tinham ganho. Ainda bem! Pelo menos agora quando me falam no Benfica já me diz alguma coisa.
Saí do hospital convencida que iria voltar para tentar convencer o doente do quarto 129 a mudar de ideias quanto à entrevista para a VISÃO. E fiquei a pensar como seria a próxima visita. Engraçado o pensamento, não é? Consegue levar-nos, com o nosso consentimento, para onde não queremos: a grande história do doente do quarto 129 é que, apesar de só conseguir mexer a cabeça e de estar internado num hospital há 34 anos, pôde decidir – contra tudo e contra todos – que não queria dar entrevistas."
in Visão "PELA SUA SAÚDE" - Isabel Nery
Faltam...
03 fevereiro 2007
17 janeiro 2007
15 janeiro 2007
14 janeiro 2007
Grandes portugueses
"Vítor Baía e Pinto da Costa fazem parte da lista dos cem grandes portugueses. Ora, esta coisa da eleição dos cem grandes portugueses faz de nós todos pequenos portugueses ou, no máximo, portugueses médios ou assim-assim e essa é a maior das injustiças. Grandes portugueses são aqueles que acordam todos os dias às seis da manhã, para tomarem um banho a correr se quiserem ter água quente para dar banho também aos filhos que já nasceram numa maternidade espanhola e que é preciso agasalhar porque estudam numa escola sem aquecimento aonde chegam depois de duas horas num autocarro comprado em segunda-mão a um sucateiro alemão. Grandes portugueses são aqueles que apanham sete autocarros para chegar ao emprego a que nunca faltam apesar dos caprichos dos STCP ou da Carris, tanto faz, e cumprem o horário de entrada mas flexibilizam o de saída e não recebem horas extras porque vivem sob a ameaça de deslocalização da empresa para o extremo-oriente. Grandes portugueses são aqueles que enchem o metro, os comboios e os autocarros no regresso a casa aonde todos os dias fazem o milagre da multiplicação dos pães que dividem pela família antes de tentarem esquecer tudo em frente à televisão que lhes explica que é muito bom ser-se pobrezinho e que os ricos são todos muito infelizes. Grandes portugueses são aqueles que, ao fim de mais um dia destes, têm uma paciência inesgotável para os filhos que sentam no colo, enchem de mimos e educam para também eles poderem ser, um dia, grandes portugueses. Como Vítor Baía ou Pinto da Costa. "
(Jorge Maia / Gimli)
(Jorge Maia / Gimli)
05 janeiro 2007
Qual foi o acontecimento do ano em Portugal?
"Para mim, é a repetição do milagre que as mulheres portuguesas continuam a fazer. Estão nas filas dos transportes públicos às seis da manhã para ir para o trabalho e depois, à noite, em casa, vão mantendo tudo como se lá estivessem estado todo o dia. Face ao que fazem todos os dias, tudo o mais no País é realmente banal."
Mário Crespo (jornalista) in Notícias Magazine (20.Dezembro.2006)
Mário Crespo (jornalista) in Notícias Magazine (20.Dezembro.2006)
30 dezembro 2006
Resoluções
Não sei se se lembram de ter eu mencionado que todos os anos eu fazia uma lista de resoluções para o ano seguinte... Bem, das quinze que tinha planeado consegui em pleno CINCO e assim assim três. Uma média muito fraquinha, devo admitir. Mas, mesmo assim, as quase OITO conseguidas melhoraram-me em alguma coisa. Pouca coisa, mas mesmo assim melhorei. :D
Estou já a preparar as maravilhosas RESOLUÇÕES PARA 2007 e para uma delas preciso da vossa ajuda... é sobre o Franquia, este magnifíco (cof cof) e maravilhoso (cof cof cof cof) blog. A questão que vos coloco é esta: mantenho-o fútil, como é presentemente, ou evoluo para algo mais sério?
Fico à espera das vossas opiniões. Até lá... Boas saídas de 2006 e excelentes entradas em 2007!
29 dezembro 2006
27 dezembro 2006
50 Things We Know Now
Researchers from the University of Manchester managed to induce teeth growth in normal chickens - activating genes that have lain dormant for 80 million years.
Galinhas com dentes? Eu sabia que não devia ter bebido alcool! :D
Para quem quiser saber mais....
50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn't Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Edition
1. U.S. life expectancy in 2005 inched up to a record high of 77.9 years.
2. The part of the brain that regulates reasoning, impulse control and judgment is still under construction during puberty and doesn't shift into autopilot until about age 25.
3. Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
4. The 8-foot-long tooth emerging from the head of the narwhal whale is actually a type of sensor that detects changes in water temperature, pressure and particle gradients.
5. U.S. Protestant "megachurches" - defined as having a weekly attendance of at least 2,000 - doubled in five years to more than 1,200 and are among the nation's fastest-growing faith groups.
6. Cheese consumption in the United States is expected to grow by 50 percent between now and 2013.
7. At 68.1 percent, the United States ranks eighth among countries that have access to and use the Internet. The largest percentage of online use was in Malta, where 78.1 percent access the Web.
8. The U.S. government has paid about $1.5 billion in benefits to thousands of sick nuclear-weapons workers since 2001.
9. Scientists have discovered that certain brain chemicals in our tears are natural pain relievers.
10. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover wrote a drooling fan letter to Lucille Ball in 1955 to tell her how much he enjoyed an episode of "I Love Lucy." "In all the years I have traveled on trains," he noted, "I have often wondered why someone did not pull the emergency brake, but I have never been aboard a train where it was done. The humor in your program last Monday, I think, exceeded any of your previous programs and they have been really good in themselves."
11. Wasps spray an insect version of pepper spray from their heads to temporarily incapacitate their rivals.
12. A sex gene responsible for making embryos male and forming the testes is also produced by the brain region targeted by Parkinson's disease, a discovery that may explain why more men than women develop the degenerative disorder.
13. Ancient humans from Asia may have entered the Americas following an ocean highway made of dense kelp.
14. An impact crater 18 miles in diameter was found 12,500 feet under the Indian Ocean.
15. Americans spent almost $32 billion on toys during 2005. About a third of that was spent on video games.
16. A new planet described as a "super-Earth," which weighs 13 times as much as our planet, exists in a solar system 9,000 light-years away.
17. A gene for a light-sensitive protein in the eye is what resets the body's "internal clock."
18. Australian scientists discovered a polyrhachis sokolova, which is believed to be the only ant species that can live under water. It nests in submerged mangroves and hides from predators in air pockets.
19. Red wine contains anti-inflammatory chemicals that stave off diseases affecting the gums and bone around the teeth.
20. A substance called resveratrol, also found in red wine, protects mice from obesity and the effects of aging, and perhaps could do the same for humans.
21. Two previously unknown forms of ice - dubbed by researchers as ice XIII and XIV - were discovered frozen at temperatures of around minus 160 degrees Celsius, or minus 256 Fahrenheit.
22. The hole in the earth's ozone layer is closing - and could be entirely closed by 2050. Meanwhile, the amount of greenhouse gases is increasing.
23. Scientists discovered what they believe to be football-field-sized minimoons scattered in Saturn's rings that may be debris left over from a collision between a comet and one of Saturn's icy moons.
24. At least once a week, 28 percent of high school students fall asleep in school, 22 percent fall sleep while doing homework and 14 percent get to school late or miss school because they overslept.
25. Women gain weight when they move in with a boyfriend because their diet deteriorates, but men begin to eat more healthy food when they set up a home with a female partner.
26. Some 45 percent of Internet users, or about 60 million Americans, said they sought online help to make big decisions or negotiate their way through major episodes in their lives during the previous two years.
27. Of the 10 percent of U.S. teens who uses credit cards, 15.7 percent are making the minimum payment each month.
28. Around the world, middle-aged and elderly men tend to be more satisfied with their sex lives than women in the same age group, a new survey shows.
29. The 90-million-year-old remains of seven pack-traveling carnivorous dinosaurs known as Mapusaurus were discovered in an area of southern Argentina nicknamed "Jurassic Park."
30. A group of genes makes some mosquitoes resistant to malaria and prevents them from transmitting the malaria parasite.
31. A 145-million-year-old beach ball-sized meteorite found a half-mile below a giant crater in South Africa has a chemical composition unlike any known meteorite.
32. Just 30 minutes of continuous kissing can diminish the body's allergic reaction to pollen, relaxing the body and reducing production of histamine, a chemical cell given out in response to allergens.
33. Saturn's moon Titan features vast swaths of "sand seas" covered with row after row of dunes from 300 to 500 feet high. Radar images of these seas, which stretch for hundreds of miles, bear a stunning likeness to ranks of dunes in Namibia and Saudi Arabia.
34. Scientists have discovered the fastest bite in the world, one so explosive it can be used to send the Latin American trap-jaw ant that performs it flying through the air to escape predators.
35. Janjucetus Hunderi, a ferocious whale species related to the modern blue whale, roamed the oceans 25 million years ago preying on sharks with its huge, razor-sharp teeth.
36. DNA analysis determined the British descended from a tribe of Spanish fishermen who crossed the Bay of Biscay almost 6,000 years ago.
37. Marine biologists discovered a new species of shark that walks along the ocean floor on its fins.
38. Most of us have microscopic, wormlike mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
39. The common pigeon can memorize 1,200 pictures.
40. The queens of bee, ant and wasp colonies that have the most sex with the largest number of males produce the strongest and healthiest colonies.
41. By firing atoms of metal at another metal, Russian and American scientists found a new element - No. 118 on the Periodic Table - that is the heaviest substance known and probably hasn't existed since the universe was in its infancy.
42. A "treasure-trove" of 150-million-year-old fossils belonging to giant sea reptiles that roamed the seas at the time of the dinosaurs was uncovered on the Arctic island chain of Svalbard, about halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole.
43. Sleeping in on Saturday and Sunday can disturb your body clock, leaving you fatigued at the start of the week.
44. Migrating dragonflies and songbirds exhibit many of the same behaviors, suggesting the rules that govern such long-distance travel may be simpler and more ancient than was once thought.
45. During the past five years, the existence of a peanut allergy in children has doubled.
46. Photos taken of Mars in 1999 and 2005 show muddy sand, indicating there may have been a flood sometime between those years.
47. A python was the first god worshipped by mankind, according to 70,000-year-old evidence found in a cave in Botswana's Tosodilo hills.
48. Red wines from southwest France and Sardinia boast the highest concentrations of chemical compounds that promote heart health.
49. One of the most effective ways for athletes to recover after exercise is to drink a glass of chocolate milk.
50. Researchers from the University of Manchester managed to induce teeth growth in normal chickens - activating genes that have lain dormant for 80 million years.
in TBO.com
Galinhas com dentes? Eu sabia que não devia ter bebido alcool! :D
Para quem quiser saber mais....
50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn't Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Edition
1. U.S. life expectancy in 2005 inched up to a record high of 77.9 years.
2. The part of the brain that regulates reasoning, impulse control and judgment is still under construction during puberty and doesn't shift into autopilot until about age 25.
3. Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
4. The 8-foot-long tooth emerging from the head of the narwhal whale is actually a type of sensor that detects changes in water temperature, pressure and particle gradients.
5. U.S. Protestant "megachurches" - defined as having a weekly attendance of at least 2,000 - doubled in five years to more than 1,200 and are among the nation's fastest-growing faith groups.
6. Cheese consumption in the United States is expected to grow by 50 percent between now and 2013.
7. At 68.1 percent, the United States ranks eighth among countries that have access to and use the Internet. The largest percentage of online use was in Malta, where 78.1 percent access the Web.
8. The U.S. government has paid about $1.5 billion in benefits to thousands of sick nuclear-weapons workers since 2001.
9. Scientists have discovered that certain brain chemicals in our tears are natural pain relievers.
10. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover wrote a drooling fan letter to Lucille Ball in 1955 to tell her how much he enjoyed an episode of "I Love Lucy." "In all the years I have traveled on trains," he noted, "I have often wondered why someone did not pull the emergency brake, but I have never been aboard a train where it was done. The humor in your program last Monday, I think, exceeded any of your previous programs and they have been really good in themselves."
11. Wasps spray an insect version of pepper spray from their heads to temporarily incapacitate their rivals.
12. A sex gene responsible for making embryos male and forming the testes is also produced by the brain region targeted by Parkinson's disease, a discovery that may explain why more men than women develop the degenerative disorder.
13. Ancient humans from Asia may have entered the Americas following an ocean highway made of dense kelp.
14. An impact crater 18 miles in diameter was found 12,500 feet under the Indian Ocean.
15. Americans spent almost $32 billion on toys during 2005. About a third of that was spent on video games.
16. A new planet described as a "super-Earth," which weighs 13 times as much as our planet, exists in a solar system 9,000 light-years away.
17. A gene for a light-sensitive protein in the eye is what resets the body's "internal clock."
18. Australian scientists discovered a polyrhachis sokolova, which is believed to be the only ant species that can live under water. It nests in submerged mangroves and hides from predators in air pockets.
19. Red wine contains anti-inflammatory chemicals that stave off diseases affecting the gums and bone around the teeth.
20. A substance called resveratrol, also found in red wine, protects mice from obesity and the effects of aging, and perhaps could do the same for humans.
21. Two previously unknown forms of ice - dubbed by researchers as ice XIII and XIV - were discovered frozen at temperatures of around minus 160 degrees Celsius, or minus 256 Fahrenheit.
22. The hole in the earth's ozone layer is closing - and could be entirely closed by 2050. Meanwhile, the amount of greenhouse gases is increasing.
23. Scientists discovered what they believe to be football-field-sized minimoons scattered in Saturn's rings that may be debris left over from a collision between a comet and one of Saturn's icy moons.
24. At least once a week, 28 percent of high school students fall asleep in school, 22 percent fall sleep while doing homework and 14 percent get to school late or miss school because they overslept.
25. Women gain weight when they move in with a boyfriend because their diet deteriorates, but men begin to eat more healthy food when they set up a home with a female partner.
26. Some 45 percent of Internet users, or about 60 million Americans, said they sought online help to make big decisions or negotiate their way through major episodes in their lives during the previous two years.
27. Of the 10 percent of U.S. teens who uses credit cards, 15.7 percent are making the minimum payment each month.
28. Around the world, middle-aged and elderly men tend to be more satisfied with their sex lives than women in the same age group, a new survey shows.
29. The 90-million-year-old remains of seven pack-traveling carnivorous dinosaurs known as Mapusaurus were discovered in an area of southern Argentina nicknamed "Jurassic Park."
30. A group of genes makes some mosquitoes resistant to malaria and prevents them from transmitting the malaria parasite.
31. A 145-million-year-old beach ball-sized meteorite found a half-mile below a giant crater in South Africa has a chemical composition unlike any known meteorite.
32. Just 30 minutes of continuous kissing can diminish the body's allergic reaction to pollen, relaxing the body and reducing production of histamine, a chemical cell given out in response to allergens.
33. Saturn's moon Titan features vast swaths of "sand seas" covered with row after row of dunes from 300 to 500 feet high. Radar images of these seas, which stretch for hundreds of miles, bear a stunning likeness to ranks of dunes in Namibia and Saudi Arabia.
34. Scientists have discovered the fastest bite in the world, one so explosive it can be used to send the Latin American trap-jaw ant that performs it flying through the air to escape predators.
35. Janjucetus Hunderi, a ferocious whale species related to the modern blue whale, roamed the oceans 25 million years ago preying on sharks with its huge, razor-sharp teeth.
36. DNA analysis determined the British descended from a tribe of Spanish fishermen who crossed the Bay of Biscay almost 6,000 years ago.
37. Marine biologists discovered a new species of shark that walks along the ocean floor on its fins.
38. Most of us have microscopic, wormlike mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
39. The common pigeon can memorize 1,200 pictures.
40. The queens of bee, ant and wasp colonies that have the most sex with the largest number of males produce the strongest and healthiest colonies.
41. By firing atoms of metal at another metal, Russian and American scientists found a new element - No. 118 on the Periodic Table - that is the heaviest substance known and probably hasn't existed since the universe was in its infancy.
42. A "treasure-trove" of 150-million-year-old fossils belonging to giant sea reptiles that roamed the seas at the time of the dinosaurs was uncovered on the Arctic island chain of Svalbard, about halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole.
43. Sleeping in on Saturday and Sunday can disturb your body clock, leaving you fatigued at the start of the week.
44. Migrating dragonflies and songbirds exhibit many of the same behaviors, suggesting the rules that govern such long-distance travel may be simpler and more ancient than was once thought.
45. During the past five years, the existence of a peanut allergy in children has doubled.
46. Photos taken of Mars in 1999 and 2005 show muddy sand, indicating there may have been a flood sometime between those years.
47. A python was the first god worshipped by mankind, according to 70,000-year-old evidence found in a cave in Botswana's Tosodilo hills.
48. Red wines from southwest France and Sardinia boast the highest concentrations of chemical compounds that promote heart health.
49. One of the most effective ways for athletes to recover after exercise is to drink a glass of chocolate milk.
50. Researchers from the University of Manchester managed to induce teeth growth in normal chickens - activating genes that have lain dormant for 80 million years.
in TBO.com
26 dezembro 2006
Carro Maravilha
Espero que o vosso Natal tenha sido tudo o que desejaram que fosse!
O meu foi maravilhoso, por tudo e por todos: a família toda reunida, a alegria das crianças a abrirem os presentes, os adultos a agradecerem as prendas, e eu... eu tive a maior surpresa de todas, uma surpresa que explicou muitas coisas que achei um pouco estranhas mas que, como sempre, nunca as "somei" para perceber o todo. Eis a maior surpresa da minha vida, a prenda do G.:
Atrás do meu popó novinho em folha (apesar do G. já o ter comprado no fim do mês passado!!!) podem ver o meu antido carrinho. Apesar da alegria pelo novo automóvel não consigo deixar de ficar melancólica por ter abandonar o meu "velhinho"...
A verdade é que estou completamente babada pelo meu novo "Carro Maravilha" :)
Aqui vão duas mais fotos dele...
O meu foi maravilhoso, por tudo e por todos: a família toda reunida, a alegria das crianças a abrirem os presentes, os adultos a agradecerem as prendas, e eu... eu tive a maior surpresa de todas, uma surpresa que explicou muitas coisas que achei um pouco estranhas mas que, como sempre, nunca as "somei" para perceber o todo. Eis a maior surpresa da minha vida, a prenda do G.:
Atrás do meu popó novinho em folha (apesar do G. já o ter comprado no fim do mês passado!!!) podem ver o meu antido carrinho. Apesar da alegria pelo novo automóvel não consigo deixar de ficar melancólica por ter abandonar o meu "velhinho"...
A verdade é que estou completamente babada pelo meu novo "Carro Maravilha" :)
Aqui vão duas mais fotos dele...
22 dezembro 2006
White Christmas
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten,
and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
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