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[was_tansu_now_badhedgehog]

Antonio Puerta didn't make it.

I was watching the game on TV.
You see that something is wrong, and the players are clearly extremely anxious, and you think "I hope the guy is alright", after all he only seemed to faint, and you think "the other players did seem very frightened by just a faint, I do hope the guy is alright". And the next day you hear that he suffered a heart attack, so you look for some news, and the English news outlets are poor on foreign sporting news so you go and read Marca with your poor Spanish, which is good enough to understand that Puerta collapsed again in the dressing room and suffered several heart attacks on the way to the hospital, that it was ventricular fibrillation, currently under medical control (and if it isn't controlled then it results in death). And you read, slowly, in your poor Spanish, that he had passed out on two previous occasions, but it was hot those times, so everyone just thought he had fainted in the heat, but the match against Getafe was in the evening, and it was not hot, and that is why his colleagues were so anxious - it is not hot *now* so something must be seriously wrong and have been seriously wrong.

If I had not been watching the match I would not be so sad now. When you saw the man fall down, you do not like to hear that he is dead. Not a fan of Sevilla or anything, just watching a game on the telly. And from reading the medical bits, reminded of a friend who also died, suddenly, of a heart that suddenly went wrong. Although this is about how sad it is that this young sportsman died, of a heart that suddenly went wrong. And how terrible it is that there are illnesses where the main symptom, the thing the patient first presents with, is sudden death.

Comments

[mybadhairlife.livejournal.com]

There's something hinky and powerful in the juxtaposition of this post with Xine's post:

"And I was thinking today, too, how I really enjoy breathing."

[troubleagain.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, that's sad. I've never heard of him, but that certainly doesn't lessen the sadness quotient.

[tansu.livejournal.com]

I posted in the full knowledge that over 90% of my friends list wouldn't know who I was talking about. Hell, I barely know who I'm talking about - I was aware that there was such a person, and I remember, kind of, that he scored a spectacular goal to get Sevilla into the UEFA cup final the other year.

The point isn't that we all know or don't know who I was talking about - the point is how one feels when the young man who falls doesn't make it.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

Only 22. How sad.

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

Sad.

[antiquated-tory.livejournal.com]

Really, very sad. And a stark reminder of how easy it is to die.