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Alex Mensaert – amputee, traveler and writer

Traveling, Writing and being a triple amputee

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  • As an amputee traveling with Klebsiella
    Traveling as a triple amputee with Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacteria that made a 5 X 7 cm hole in my right lung isn’t that easy.Six times in one year I was in different hospitals, almost for a total of over five months.That it will kill me one day, as the doctors told me, I understand. A hole in the long in this case can’t be closed and since I am always with an infection and being over thin; 40 kilo in weight, – a surgery can’t be done.For me the biggest suffer is that all this made me so weak…More
  • World Traveler from Belgium
    For who don’t know me… The country of chocolat, over 400 beers, Belgian fries and so many comic book series as Tintin and the Smurfs, is where I come from. Yes! Belgium the country where famous comic figures were born. But also I was born there.‘What have I done wrong in another life’, is a question I asked myself already many times. That I was born there, while there are so many nice countries in the world.A country so tiny that is split into a French and a Dutch speaking part, but dislikes each other. A country that welcomes Muslim…More

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