After four years full of challenges and hard work, it's time to move on.
I leave with the feeling that the mission is complete. 4 seasons, 3 championships.
I will never forget the love I received from the fans from my very first days.
Catalonia is my place on earth.
Thank you to everyone I met along the way during these beautiful four years.
A special thank you to President Laporta for giving me the chance to live the most incredible chapter of my career.
Barça is back where it belongs.
Visca el Barça. Visca Catalunya 💙❤️
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Doctors predicted Christina Santhouse would never live a normal life. Yet after losing half her brain, she earned two university degrees and built a successful career as a speech-language pathologist.
At just eight years old, Christina underwent a radical hemispherectomy to end the constant, debilitating seizures caused by Rasmussen’s encephalitis. Surgeons removed the entire right hemisphere of her brain. Medical experts at the time warned that she would likely face permanent dependence and severe cognitive limitations.
Instead, Christina’s story became a remarkable testament to the brain’s extraordinary plasticity and the strength of human determination. She spent years relearning basic motor skills and defying every pessimistic forecast. At seventeen, she earned her driver’s license. She then completed both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in just five years. Today, she works as a speech-language pathologist, using her professional training and personal experience to help others overcome communication difficulties.
Christina Santhouse’s journey powerfully demonstrates that even the most dire medical prognosis cannot define a person’s true potential.
[Johns Hopkins Medicine. (2011). Christina’s Story: Life After Hemispherectomy. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center]
According to her lawyer, Noelia Castillo Ramos cannot change her mind about undergoing euthanasia because her organs are already committed.
Her lawyer highlights the hospital’s conflict of interest in this case, because Noelia’s organs are worth millions in billable charges.
This graphic is from the 2025 Milliman report on transplant charges: