Verona Pooth
She almost died in a car accident
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Verona Pooth is known for her lively and outspoken manner. In a new episode of her podcast, however, she now tones more serious tones, reports of a dramatic experience that would have been almost fatal for her.
The incident was many years ago, but Verona Pooth, 52, can hear the tension when she told her son San Diego, 17, about it in the joint “Poothcast”. A serious car accident almost cost the presenter her life at the age of 19.
She and two friends were driving a car when she crashed into a concrete pillar at the Horner Kreisel, a multi-lane roundabout in Hamburg. “I still thought: ‘It’s going to hurt a lot soon'”, she remembers the moment of horror. “Then there was this impact and suddenly there was such a calm in the car.” While friend Timo was unconscious after a collision with his head on the steering wheel, her friend Inga flew from back to front into the footwell.
Verona Pooth suffered spinal and rib fractures
“I had my seat folded up like an oyster. My seat was broken. I was buckled up and that meant I survived at all, but by breaking my seat, because it was so severe, I broke my spine twice,” so the 52-year-old in conversation with Diego. She also suffered broken ribs and a ruptured spleen. “That’s when I looked death in the face for the first time.”
The mother of two can still clearly remember this moment: “A second before the impact, I really saw my life run past me. It was always a photo, for example the face of my father, the face of my mother. Or Pictures that mean something to me from my life. I saw myself as a younger person, everything that meant something to me. ” At that moment she thought, “It’s just over now”.
The presenter was afraid of paraplegia
When a helper tried to pull her out of the car, she immediately yelled: “Don’t touch, don’t touch!” Her spine felt like “someone had put stones on it”, and Verona knew that something was wrong and that she could even be paraplegic if she moved incorrectly. She was very fortunate that she listened to her gut feeling even in this shock moment. Because after she was lifted out of the car and onto a stretcher by rescue workers, she could no longer feel her legs. At the hospital, Verona realized that her chances of walking again were 50 percent. This also seemed to be confirmed by the doctors who discussed her condition by her bedside. “She can still move her legs,” said one of them, whereupon the then 19-year-old began to cry.
“It saved me the A ****!”
She had to spend three months in the clinic lying on her back without a pillow. Son Diego is shocked by his mother’s stories, but interjects that it ultimately helped her. “Helped? It saved the A **** for me! That was the experience when I once saw death very closely,” she continues.
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