Claudio Alfaro compartió su potente historia.
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00:00How much can stress affect you?
00:02To what extent can life change you in a picture like that?
00:09Claudio knows a lot about that.
00:12Hi, I'm Claudio Alfaro. I'm amputated on my knee due to labor stress.
00:17It may seem like a lie, but his story is completely real.
00:20At 53 years old, he witnessed first-hand how his life changed completely in 2013.
00:26Well, it all starts with a slight pain, like muscle aches.
00:31And then it gets worse with time.
00:33It's a strong fatigue with pain.
00:35It's like muscle aches.
00:36There, the warning signals were definitely on,
00:39but he never thought about what would happen just a few hours later.
00:43I went out to train, and when I got there, a super strong pain started,
00:46and I fell asleep and my foot fell.
00:50From there, I fell in the hospital, and the only thing they said was that I had to be amputated.
00:53I thought it was possible because of the symptoms I had and the color of my foot,
00:57but they only told me it was a finger, a pure finger.
01:01I found out about it in the hospital.
01:03When I went to see him,
01:06I asked a doctor how he was doing,
01:09and he told me everything.
01:11And I was like, oh, I'm stuck.
01:14He started telling me about an amputation on my knee.
01:17I didn't understand anything.
01:19My head was in a state of shock.
01:22I almost fainted.
01:23I started crying because I didn't understand anything he was saying.
01:27Nothing could be done.
01:29The thrombosis, caused by stress,
01:31had caused damage to his leg,
01:33which at this point could no longer be saved.
01:38But this great obstacle was not an impediment to continue living,
01:41not normally, not on a daily basis,
01:43but with excellence.
01:45He adapted his bike himself,
01:47and pedaled without stopping.
01:49I focused on what was going to happen to me,
01:51and on what I could do.
01:53The only thing I did was resign myself
01:55and continue living.
01:57I started looking on the internet
01:59if there was a possibility of riding a bike,
02:01and of course, the results were positive,
02:03and everything was fine.
02:05I got on the bike hidden from everyone in the house.
02:08I set up a bike in silence in the workshop I have in the house,
02:12and when everyone was careless, I started.
02:16Everyone was looking for me until they saw me pass.
02:18And from there, I didn't give up.
02:20Pride.
02:22Pride, admiration.
02:24Because I don't know if it would have happened to me,
02:26it would have been the same.
02:28It won him his destiny,
02:30it won him his life, because it is pride.
02:32Pride as a person,
02:34to be standing.
02:38This family is facing their biggest hurdle today.
02:40They need to raise 2,700,000 pesos
02:43to acquire a prosthesis
02:45that will allow them to pedal faster.
02:47The problem is that they have only raised
02:49700,000 pesos.
02:51My big dream for these Paralympic Games
02:54of 2023 is
02:56to give my best,
02:58which I have always done,
03:02and try to do 200% in the races,
03:05because
03:07I am getting older
03:09and I want to finish with the name of my country,
03:12as I have done in all the countries I have been to.
03:14Well, I tell all the people
03:16that life goes on.
03:18There are families
03:20who support you
03:22with great pain,
03:24but they endure it
03:26so as not to pass it on to you
03:28and not to pass it on to them.
03:30They keep fighting day by day
03:32and each day is better for everyone.
03:46What a beautiful story, Claudio!
03:48I see you more excited
03:50not only because you were able to overcome adversity,
03:52but also to hear your wife,
03:54who is proud.
03:56Verónica even said,
03:58and probably many of us think so,
04:00if it had happened to us,
04:02what would we be doing?
04:04That is why it is admirable what Claudio has done.
04:06But this started with a picture of stress
04:08that triggered three thromboses.
04:10And clearly,
04:12despite everything, he wants to get ahead.
04:14We are going to sit down
04:16at the 2023 Games.
04:18Are we still on time?
04:20We are still on time,
04:22because there is one more year to go.
04:24But for that, we have to activate.
04:26You saw in the note
04:28that we need to raise 2,700,000 pesos.
04:30We already have 700,000 pesos.
04:32You carry a lot of effort, I imagine.
04:34It is 2 million pesos that would change
04:36your condition in some way,
04:38to get a prosthesis
04:40to be able to pedal faster.
04:42Tell us about your story, Claudio.
04:44Especially because, if this starts
04:46with an episode of stress,
04:48you realized, you were aware
04:50that you were stressed.
04:52At that moment, what were you working on?
04:54What happened to you?
04:56Well, I worked in a company
04:58near my house.
05:00I was in charge of maintenance.
05:02And I worked more or less
05:04like four years alone.
05:06Maintenance for the company,
05:08a giant company.
05:10Of course.
05:12In those four years,
05:14did you have your holidays?
05:16Did you have a day off?
05:18Or were you very demanding?
05:20I was very demanding.
05:22In fact, as some of us do,
05:24we sell holidays.
05:26But when they saw me
05:28that I was too tired,
05:30they sent me home.
05:32How did you realize
05:34that you were very tired?
05:36What happens is that
05:38I went to the company
05:40and I was repairing a machine.
05:42I had a giant electric board
05:44and
05:46I was falling asleep.
05:48They told me that I was
05:50throwing my head.
05:52I said, look at me, Claudio.
05:54I looked at him and he told me,
05:56these holidays you take,
05:58because you are working too much
06:00and you need it.
06:02Why does that feeling
06:04of feeling indispensable
06:06come to you?
06:08Of having to fulfill,
06:10of being very responsible?
06:12But the body does the math.
06:14I imagine that is part of the lesson
06:16you learned in this past.
06:18Yes.
06:20Not to live to work.
06:22Exactly. I was doing the opposite.
06:24And well,
06:26the only bad thing
06:28is that one has to go through
06:30something bad to realize
06:32what is happening.
06:34In fact, where I am working now,
06:36I don't work
06:38a weekend for anyone.
06:40No one.
06:42The weekends are mine.
06:44Mine, mine, mine.
06:46I came in at 6 in the morning,
06:48I left at 2.30 in the morning,
06:50at 6 I was back at work,
06:52from Monday to Monday.
06:54And
06:56what you want to win,
06:58in the end you spend it.
07:00You spend it on the doctor,
07:02on everything.
07:04In the end, you were always a sportsman.
07:06Always.
07:08And this had an impact
07:10on what served
07:12even as
07:14a kind of rest, recreation,
07:16which is to go out and ride a bike,
07:18because you also had a bike workshop.
07:20I have a small workshop in the house
07:22where I only do specific things,
07:24which are finer bikes.
07:26You were pedaling,
07:28and suddenly what happened?
07:30When the disease hit me,
07:32well, I always felt constant pain,
07:34just like when I was walking,
07:36but
07:38a group of 50, 100, 80 people
07:40came out, and because I was not alone,
07:42I endured the pain and kept walking.
07:44And you got three thrombosis.
07:46At night.
07:48When the body relaxes,
07:50all the pains begin,
07:52stronger, not being able to sleep.
07:54And
07:56well, one believes
07:58that it is because of a doctor,
08:00not because of muscle pain.
08:02When it hit me,
08:04there was no way out.
08:06They told you, this is because of stress.
08:08I came to know
08:10about stress
08:12from a doctor.
08:14A doctor always gave me a license.
08:16Every month, she gave me a license.
08:18And she went on vacation
08:20and took me to a doctor.
08:22I was very old.
08:24You just wanted her to leave.
08:26The doctor who told me, do you smoke?
08:28No.
08:30You have stress now.
08:32After four years, I came to know.
08:34How incredible.
08:36How did you receive that news?
08:38Because, in the end,
08:40after four years,
08:42they had to cut your leg.
08:44But I imagine, as you said in the report,
08:46when you receive that news
08:48that they are going to have to amputate the leg,
08:50it's hard not to believe it.
08:52Yes.
08:54It's hard,
08:56but thank God,
08:58I always had a strong character.
09:00And I always knew what I had to do.
09:04In fact, at home,
09:06they thought I was going crazy.
09:08Well, I was really going crazy with the pain.
09:10But they thought
09:12I was falling into another position
09:14because the only thing I looked at on the internet
09:16was what I could do.
09:18I looked for my sport.
09:20Yes.
09:22And they told me
09:24that I had to do something else with cycling.
09:26But you started with the wheels,
09:28because you built a special bike
09:30and you started pedaling without telling anyone.
09:32Well, I started with a conventional bike
09:34that is a fixed pinion.
09:36That bike keeps pedaling.
09:38It only stops with the force of the legs.
09:40But I adapted a brake for it.
09:42Why? Does it have a torpedo-type brake?
09:44No. You can pedal backwards and backwards.
09:46I can't believe it.
09:48Those are the ones that run on the velodrome.
09:50So I waited for everyone to be a little careless
09:52and I started.
09:54You started?
09:56Look who's coming in.
09:58Who's coming in?
10:00Veronica, I want you to come in.
10:02Veronica, come on.
10:04Veronica is your wife.
10:06I met her in make-up.
10:08Come on in.
10:10Come on in.
10:12Come on in.
10:14Manuel doesn't get angry.
10:16Hey, Veronica.
10:18Turn around.
10:20You are so proud of Claudio.
10:22Come closer.
10:24Yes.
10:26Seeing his story portrayed on TV
10:28makes you emotional.
10:30Why did he end up being a great example for everyone?
10:32And to remember everything.
10:34From the beginning.
10:36As I said in the note,
10:38it's a pride
10:40because apart from
10:42having many networks
10:44of support and everything,
10:46it's because he wanted to.
10:48He had the strength
10:50and the will to move forward.
10:52Yes.
10:54And now, above all,
10:56because he has a tremendous challenge.
10:58But for that challenge,
11:00we needed to activate Jairo Valdez.
11:02First, I want to tell Claudio,
11:04Claudio, you really moved me.
11:06You are an inspiration.
11:08I had the pleasure of getting to know you better.
11:10You are an inspiration.
11:12You are a blow to hope,
11:14but it's impossible.
11:16Many times we make a glass of water
11:18and you show us the opposite.
11:20I want to commit myself here.
11:22This boy you see here
11:24needs to represent Chile.
11:26And we could say, how much?
11:28Why can't he do it?
11:30I'm going to commit myself as an activator
11:32so that we can get that money
11:34and we're going to start this campaign today.
11:36How much is left, Claudito?
11:38Two million pesos.
11:40Two million pesos.
11:42If you want to collaborate,
11:44we still have about 30 minutes left.
11:46Take a screenshot.
11:48Take a screenshot, but I'm going to be
11:50bothering you all week
11:52until we reach this goal.
11:54Because your story really killed me, friend.
11:56You were an inspiration for all of us
11:58who are here in the studio.
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