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German to English: Video interview excerpt about multiple sclerosis General field: Medical Detailed field: Medical (general)
Source text - German [04:00:32.06] Ja also, wenn ich an Lebensqualität denke dann ist es für mich... Gut, es gibt 'ne Menge Sachen: gutes Essen, gut trinken, Reisen machen. Oh Gott. Eigentlich alles das tun was ich tun möchte. Das ist Lebensqualität. So würd' ich's formulieren.
[04:00:53.06] Ja gut, machen wir's anders. Nochmal. Also, Lebensqualität für mich ist einfach alles das zu tun was ich gerne tun möchte. Da kann -- gutes Essen gehört dazu, Verreisen gehört dazu, gut Trinken gehört dazu. Mich mit Freunden treffen gehört dazu. Also alles das was mein Leben schön macht. Das ist Lebensqualität.
[04:01:30.09] Als ich meine Diagnose MS bekam... ja natürlich, ich hatte große Ängste damals. Ich hatte Ängste, daß sich ganz viel ändert für mich zumal in dem Zustand in dem ich da war. Ich bin ja mit 'nem ganz harten Schub betroffen worden, das heißt ich bin direkt in 'nen Rollstuhl gekommen.
[04:02:00.09] Hatte also für mich selber gedacht, okay das Leben ist vorbei. Lebensqualität wird bei Null sein und mußte dann eigentlich da wieder... ja, an dem Zeitpunkt, ich hab' mich aufgegeben. Ja das hat sich...da war 'ne Menge Änderung an Lebensqualität.
[04:02:06.13] Wenn ich dran denke wie's heute ist, dann denk' ich so es ist viel besser. Also heute hab' ich ein hohes Maß an Lebensqualität. Ich lebe trotz meiner Erkrankung mit am oberen Limit der Menschen, die gute Lebensqualität haben, das heißt ich verreise viel, ich esse gut, ich trinke gut, ich schlafe viel. Ich hab' viele Freunde. Also ja, heute hat sich das wieder auf ein völliges ... ne, sogar besser. Es ist sogar besser geworden. Ich hab' 'ne höhere Lebensqualität als früher.
[04:02:47.02] Ne, ne, das paßt.
[04:03:00.21] Ja, also innerhalb der Therapie. Das war die Frage vorhin. Genau.
[04:03:14.06] Ja, also, wenn ich drüber nachdenke, ich hatte im letzten Jahr einen Schub unter der Therapie, was für mich natürlich sehr enttäuschend war zuerst, weil ich dachte: Mensch, ich nehme jetzt schon alles und ich halt mich wirklich pünktlich dran und bekomme jetzt trotzdem 'nen Schub. Hm, war erst mal ein bißchen enttäuschend. Gott sei Dank, er war nicht so hart. Also er war viel, viel weicher, viel, viel leichterer Verlauf als die Schübe, die ich vor der Therapie hatte. Ich mußte auch nicht ins Krankenhaus, sondern ich hab' das ausgesessen zu Hause nach Rücksprache mit meinem Arzt.
[04:03:55.11] Bevor ich meine Therapie begonnen hab', da hatte ich auch Schübe und das waren so ziemlich die schlimmsten Schübe und bilderbuchhaft alles das was man sich unter - wenn man mal liest MS-Schübe, was kann passieren, also alles das was Du da sehn' wirst, das hab' ich gehabt. Also ich bin direkt in den Rollstuhl gegangen. Konnte gar nicht mehr laufen. Ich konnte nicht mehr sehen. Ich hab' komplett verzerrtes Sichtbild gehabt. Ich hab ganz starke Schmerzen gehabt, so daß es auch daher ein bißchen gedauert hat bis überhaupt diese MS Diagnose 'rumgekommen ist.
[04:04:25.08] Und die Schübe, die ich da hatte waren sehr hart, insbesondere der zweite dann. Nach dem ersten hatte mir der Arzt dort im Krankenhaus gesagt, ja das kann jetzt Jahre dauern bis Sie wieder 'was haben. Aus den Jahren wurden dann drei Wochen. Und dann war ich erneut im Krankenhaus und das war schon sehr, sehr - auch emotional sehr hart.
[04:05:05.11] Also, wenn ich so 'mal 'nen Schub hatte oder auch 'mal wieder in Zukunft einen bekommen würde, eigentlich geht mein Leben ganz normal weiter. Weil ich weiß was passiert. Das ist natürlich hilfreich. Also es ist für mich nichts Unerwartetes, sondern ich weiß okay, jetzt kann ich nicht richtig laufen oder jetzt muß ich halt 'mal ein paar Tage den Rollator nehmen. Aber dadurch ändert sich mein Leben nicht. Auch meine Lebensqualität sinkt dadurch nicht groß, weil ich muß vielleicht den einen oder anderen Termin absagen, aber ansonsten keine große Änderung. Weil ich eben alles weiß. Weil ich weiß genau, das geht wieder weg. [04:05:39.03] Das Wichtigste, was auch jeder MS Patient im Hinterkopf behalten sollte, meistens geht alles wieder weg und deswegen gibt's keine große Änderung jetzt mehr.
Translation - English [04:00:32.06] Yes, so when I think about quality of life, then for me it’s about …. Well, there are a lot of things: eating well, drinking well, taking trips. Oh God. Actually, everything I would like to do. That’s quality of life. That’s how I would define it.
[04:00:53.06] Okay well, let’s do it differently. Once more. So, to me quality of life is simply doing everything I would like to do. It can --- good food belongs to that, traveling belongs to that, drinking well belongs to that. In essence everything that makes my life beautiful. That’s quality of life.
[04:01:30.09] When I received my MS diagnosis … yes of course, I had many fears at that time. I feared many changes for myself, especially in the condition I was in at the time. I had suffered a severe attack, which means that I ended up directly in a wheelchair.
[04:02:00.09] So I thought, okay [my] life is over. Quality of life is going to be zero and I then actually had to … well, at that time, I gave up on myself… Yes, it was … many quality of life changes took place.
[04:02:06.13] When I think about how it is today, then I think it’s so much better. So, today I possess quality of life in high measure. I live at the upper limit of those people who possess good quality of life despite my disease. That means that I travel often, I eat well, I drink well, I sleep a lot. I have many friends. So yes, today it is again a fully … no, even better… It got even better. I have a higher quality of life than before.
[04:02:47.02] No, no, it works.
[04:03:00.21] Yes, so within the therapy. That was the question just now. Exactly.
[04:03:14.06] Yes so, when I think about it, last year I had an attack while undergoing therapy. At first that was of course very disappointing for me because I thought: [Mensch is a German expression that expresses agitation. In English it approximates ‘what the XXX’] I’m already taking everything and truly adhere to it punctually, and still I am having an attack. Um… It was a little disappointing initially. Thank God, the attack was not very severe. It took a much, much softer; a much, much easier course than the attacks that I had had before therapy. I didn’t even have to be hospitalized but stayed home after discussing it with my physician.
[04:03:55.11] Before I started therapy I also had attacks and they were more or less the worst attacks – and proverbially [what the subject is saying is ‘picture-book-like’], everything one [imagines – note: the verb is missing in German] – if one reads about MS attacks, what can happen, so everything one sees there, I had it. So, I went directly into a wheelchair. Could not walk at all anymore. I could no longer see. I had a completely distorted field of vision. I was in severe pain. Because of all of that it also took a while to establish this MS diagnosis.
[04:04:25.08] And the attacks which I had were severe, especially the second one. After the first attack, the doctor told me there in the hospital ‘yes, it may take years until you will have something else [another attack].’ Those years then turned into three weeks. And then I was once more in the hospital and that was truly very, very – emotionally difficult as well.
[04:05:05.11] So, when I had an attack or if I were to have one again in the future, my life continues normally. Because I know what happens. Naturally that helps. So, for me it’s nothing unexpected but I know, okay now I can’t walk correctly or now I just have to use a walker for a few days. But because of that my life does not change. Also, my quality of life is not greatly diminished because of that – maybe I have to cancel an appointment or two but otherwise there is no great change. Because I now know it all. Because I now know that it will go away again.
[04:05:39.03] The most important thing, which every MS patient ought to remember too, is that most of the time everything disappears again and because of that no big change exists anymore at this time.
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