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He has not seen his son, just 5 years old, since Monday night when Asrem’s doctors decided to transfer him to a pediatric hospital outside the region due to his delicate respiratory situation due to Sars-Cov-2 infection. “Her son will be taken to the Infant Jesus of Rome but she will not be able to go with him “. After the news of your baby’s positive swab, the cold shower of having to part with her. Too high is the probability that she too Larino’s mother ended up in the ‘spotlight’ and on the ‘lips’ of everyone in town and beyond, was positive for coronavirus, as later confirmed by the facts.
“I have not lived since Monday, the first night was also terrible because they promised me that they would call me as soon as my baby arrived in Rome, but it did not happen.” The next morning at 7 am he picked up the phone and called the number of the pediatric hospital in the capital. “There are no children with this name here,” replied a nurse. Another cold shower, another scare. Then, after many phone calls, the mystery was revealed: the child was hospitalized in Palidoro, in Fiumicino, in what is a kind of Covid wing separated from the well-known hospital in Rome. To keep the little boy company is his father, who is also positive although asymptomatic, and a resident of Rome. But for him mom, more than 300 kilometers from her baby, anxiety and apprehension are amplified. During the first days of his stay in the hospital, the little boy was intubated and admitted Intensive care But the good news is that since yesterday, Wednesday, his condition has improved significantly and he is no longer in the ‘lifeguard’ room. “Now I can see it through video calls. I listen to him often, even if he’s still weak. ” Yesterday the baby’s father also helped him get out of bed and stretch his legs. But the course of the disease is not over yet and controls are still ongoing.
An infection that arrived overnight and soon spread to much of the family. Before classes began, the boy had been in Rome with his father and it is there that in all likelihood the two contracted the coronavirus. So when the child returns a Larino – where he lives with his mother, grandmother and aunt (his mother’s sister, 12 years old) – the bitter discovery, which has caused confusion throughout the city. In fact, on September 14, the day the school reopened, he had been in class (‘Novelli’ kindergarten) and confirmation of his positivity triggered the appropriate measures, that is, swabs for all children and personal. . Yesterday the results: with enormous relief all are negative. Otherwise first the mother tested positive and then, officially since yesterday, also the grandmother and the young aunt, only 12 years old. The positivity of the latter has once again terrorized the public in general and the “school population” in particular. Finally, the decision, made by the mayor in agreement with the principal and health authorities, to close the entire middle school, at least until the results of the swabs on students and staff are known.
“What annoys me is that I’m fine and I have no symptoms,” explains the young mother who has lived in Italy for almost three decades, but is still a child from overseas. A kind of maternal guilt: ‘Why am I fine and my son isn’t?’ the woman seems to say, dismayed by the pain and impotence. Like her, her mother and sister are also in good health and together at home in isolation. “Everyone is in a room, at home we wear masks, we eat from plastic dishes and we keep a safe distance”, rules that the three women soon learned to respect. “It’s strange, but the months of confinement have gotten us used to it.” It is also clear that at the top of the concerns now is the health of the little family, whom everyone hopes to be able to hug again soon.
However, to make everything more indigestible for the family, already harshly tested by the facts, there was also the disorderly reaction, veiled with evil and selfishness, of the townspeople. “Since my son’s tampon results came out, my phone never stopped ringing. But no one who has ever asked me how I am and how he is. They all wanted to know if it was true and they told me ‘I’m not going to send my son to school anymore.’ Without delicacy, no one (or almost) who has put themselves in the shoes of this young mother who has not slept since her son fell ill, now so far from her and also only in a hospital bed. Only yesterday, after learning that her children’s tests were negative, someone called her and spoke to her in different tones. “In these situations the hypocrisy of the people arises. Now I know that the people I can trust can be counted on the fingers of one hand. But 5 fingers is too many. “
The woman is an overflowing river, in her voice and in her frenzied speech we recognize all that she is suffering and that she would never have expected to experience. Yesterday the last straw that broke the camel’s back. “In the social networks and in the newspapers everyone was talking about the positivity of my sister (the 12-year-old girl, ed) but we had not yet received the communication from Asrem”. And the communication, in fact, only arrived by phone this morning, around 10. “My sister found out that it was positive through a call from her classmate. He was the one who told her. “
From the untimely communication – with regard to this family – from the Asrem, the woman also interested the Carabinieri to trace the truth of the facts. “The online newspapers wrote it, the whole country talked about it, last night the mayor wrote it on Facebook. But nobody had communicated anything official to us yet ”.
It is an iconic story, showing all the dark, sometimes paradoxical sides of what people experience who suddenly find themselves dealing with this ‘strange’ disease, and with all its consequences. In addition, for a family of foreign origin, it is easy to be a victim of prejudice and mistrust of people.. “I read nasty comments on social media that said I was an irresponsible mother. Why? We did not go on vacation abroad as many have. My son visited his father who lives far away from him. In all these months the idea of him getting sick has terrified me, and I don’t even take him to the Larino park. But before classes started, I wanted him to stay with his dad for a few days, that’s all. The young woman wishes to send a strong and clear warning to everyone. “This disease is not a fault, everyone can get it and in any case, we certainly did not go looking for it.”
In recent months there has been a lot of talk about the attitude of greaser hunt, and it is precisely this that underlines, with anger and sadness, this mother. “A neighbor called the Carabinieri accusing my mother of standing on the landing to speak when she had simply come down to take the food packages that the parish priest sent us through Caritas.” But the episodes in this sense – which the woman chose to tell Primonumero – are different, and they are like so many open wounds. “We know very well that we cannot take the elevator and we have never dreamed of doing so. But in the condominium they blocked it as soon as they found out that we are infected ”. The feeling of being ‘treated’ like a ‘plague’ has been ubiquitous these days. It happened here, as it has and will happen elsewhere. But what hurts this family the most is theindifference with which his pain was eliminated, even by many parents that perhaps more than others could have understood their ordeal.
A few years ago, the woman moved from Molise to Rome, then chose to return to Larino to raise her son here. “I have always had good relationships with everyone. I understand fear, but I would have expected more solidarity ”.
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