About me

In 2017, happened a tragic change in my life. One stranger driver choice changed my life forever. There was a traffic accident, where I as a passenger unfortunately suffered the most. I was in a coma for a whole month. I woke up in a state of confusion: where and why was I, why I could not speak or move!? My ability to speak was firstly non-existent and my body was chained to the bed. It took about five months from the day of the accident until I was in a wheelchair, and in parallel with my physical recovery, through great effort I began to communicate. At first, I tried to make myself understood by writing or using body language, followed by pronouncing syllables: "HEL-LO I A-M A MA-REK." During 2018, I learned to pronounce words again, and by the end of the same year I had reached sentences. My speech is still not as fluent and clear as before the accident, needs continued polishing, but compared to the start of recovery, the progress is enormous. Noticing and appreciating small changes is a very important key to finding and maintaining motivation. I am still in a wheelchair, but I have not lost hope that one day I will be able to walk on my own. While recovering from an accident, I have experienced both joys, disappointments and setbacks. Many times it has seemed that I would immediately get up on my feet and start walking independently – but then I need another surgery operation to make the bones grow together properly. After that, the whole thing and journey starts all over again. Each time it seems harder and harder to motivate myself to work on my recovery. To cope with all this while maintaining common sense and a positive attitude, I started to learn and develop myself (to be strong in theory at least). Today, I have come to recognize that I can carry what happened to me and my journey of recovery with me not as a burden, but as a value – and share all of this with others. In the hope that I can help some of my fellow sufferers at least a little. I studied to be a peer counselor to be more confident. To be able to analyze, think about what I have been through and share that experience as an value.

Anyone who has been in a similar situation can relate to me. I am not a doctor or a psychologist, I can only share what I have felt and gone through myself. I also do not want to take on the role of a “wise teacher”: sometimes you just need to talk openly and without shame to someone like you, who does not come at you with the sympathy of an outsider, but is truly in the same boat as you.

If you feel like you would feel better if you could share your story, the thoughts, feelings, doubts and hesitations related to it with someone, feel free to contact me. I am not used to saying “No”. I will do my best to understand you and support you.