Bobana watcher her parents die, she tried to commit suicide and she lost both hands: Now, she has a store, she is happily married and she has a child (PHOTO)
Bobana Latincic from Dusanovo, near Gradiska, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, found the strength to carry on with her life after the tragedies that happened to her.
Bobana's life changed forever on July 27th, 2000. When she was just 20 years old, she and her younger sister Dragana, 15 years old at the time, lost both of their parents. They died while paragliding, in front of their daughters.
At first, Bobana tried to handle life and all of the incoming problems on her on. She refused the help from the people from the environment, she worked in the family shop and she tried to ensure existence for herself and her sister. But, it was simply too much pain, sadness and burden, and questions for one twenty-year-old girl.
Unfortunately, she didn't ask for help, she tried to commit suicide with a bomb in 2003.
- I fought, I tried to continue with my life, but I was seriously depressed and I gave up. I remember every detail on that day when I decided to hurt myself. I simply thought that everybody will be better without me - Bobana starts her life story for Buka.
Her sister and her aunt have found her, without both of her hands, but without any major injuries on the rest of her body, which puts her in one of the statistically incredible cases.
And it is incredible because, after everything she has been through, she managed to strength, to fight with the past and to start living her life to the fullest. It wasn't easy, she said, but she did it.
- After two years of recovery, in 2005, I am starting to work again in the family shop. I had to admit that it wasn't easy, but luckily, I am persistent and stubborn, and I managed it all in the end. I am measuring everything, I am putting items on shelves, I am typing out bills, I charge, and the problem is just carrying a large number of items at once. It helped me a lot that the buyers, the people I have known my entire life, selflessly helped me to adjust. Of course, there is my sister who was always a special support for me, including the workers in the store - she said, and she different from other people who have disabilities. First of all, no one sees her as a handicapped person in her environment, and she doesn't see herself like that - she is not hiding her hands and she doesn't like clothes with long sleeves.
She honestly answered the question, what is it like to have no hands.
- It is the hardest to actually accept the new situation and while I wasn't accepting it I was seriously depressed. Little by little, I started doing one thing after the other and accepting myself the way I am. There, the first thing I managed to do is light a cigarette. And I am entirely used to it now and I have no issues - she said.
Although the rights of people with disability are often broken here, she didn't have many situations like that. She remembered earlier when she tried to import a car with tax relieves, which he has the rights to do as a disabled person, she was told that she can't do that because "she has legs".
Although, the situation is somewhat different today, first of all, because Bobana got happily married in the meantime, and she became a mother of a boy four months ago.
- Before she remained pregnant, I paid for everything, participation, parking, even though I don't have to by law. I acted differently with pregnancy, I started searching, and sometimes I insist on everything that is provided by law. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don't, but I know that I won't succeed if I don't try - Bobana said, who has been handling the housework by her self, and she takes care about her four months old son.
There was fear, especially at the end of pregnancy. She was afraid that she won't be able to take care of everything, but when the child came, everything came into its place.
Bobana didn't neglect college, she is studying hard, and she has six more exams until graduation from the Communal Services college in Banja Luka. By the way, this is her third student's index, she stopped her first studies when her parents died, the second time when her accident happened.
- The shop is under rent, and that is the main source of income for my sister and I, besides the disability pension. That encouraged me to take care of tomorrow. I would like to do something in the future that I went to school for, and I hope that I will succeed - Bobana said who doesn't look at the past anymore but only to the future and her family.
Everything is in us, she said, and we are the creators of our own life.
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