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The last time I tried to see it they arrested me in three. We have been infected with Covid, the nurses said, preventing me from even looking out the door and giving him a kiss. No more input from relatives, not even to feed those who cannot do it alone. “I’m trying to manage by myself,” my father had said, trying to reassure my mother. But he was getting weaker. And when I saw on a video call that he had oxygen and he didn’t answer me, I realized that he was gone. by Tiziana Ciavardini, anthropologist, journalist, repentance of not having been able to steal from his father, maybe even with the carabinieri, to a shielded hospital ward due to the risk of contagion a rock. But it is not intended to be crushed. IS fight so that it does not happen to others what happened with work gentleman, Arnaldo Ciavardini, cured by doctors, but then consumed and worsened without his loved ones by his side, in the name of the Covid emergency in Rome in Casilino Polyclinic,ospedale Covid free. The facility’s health management, contacted by Messenger Service, has not yet responded.
History
For the vital and very lucid 85-year-old, it all started in July with heart problems that doctors from Casilino Polyclinic, according to his daughter, had brilliantly resolved, to the point of transferring him to a rehabilitation center. A urinary infection had forced him to go back to the Polyclinic. But the treatments had cured him. And waiting for announced resignations had regained his spirit, irony and strength, thanks to the food that the relatives came to take care of personally at all meals. Then the 14th, the sudden stop. The prohibitions to enter, to see it. I do not know what happened. The nurses told me there was aCovid emergency, that eight of them were infected, but I do not know if it is true, there was no official communication, as happens in schools when there is a positive. The structure is not included in the regional list of infections. And I don’t know that there is an emergency like in Codogno in February, informs Tiziana, who would have liked to choose whether to leave her father or take him home.. For a week he insisted in vain on feeding his father again: We put them homogenized in soups, we feed them, he insisted. The nurses didn’t have time for that. The doctors themselves asked us. Then?.
Video chat
The thing that tortures family members the most. not knowing anything about the patient’s worsening. A week ago the infection had passed, they gave him physiotherapy, he was not about to die, but about to be discharged. My mother had been shopping for her homecoming. Then? Why didn’t they tell us anything?. The news from the neighborhood was always reassuring. Until the last video call on Saturday the 19th. My father had oxygen, but the nurse said it was just to make him breathe better. It shook her. She called it. She said, ‘Do you see your daughter? Say hello. But did not respond. He was leaving. So Sunday morning I tried to get in. Anything. As a result of the protests, they allowed my brother to return at 6 pm for dinner. But my father, thin, very weak, no longer ate, after a while he was transferred to intensive care. They called us and asked who they should deliver their personal effects to (including the uncut bag of baby food and snacks). Why else was he already dead? They didn’t even show me there, maybe from a glass. I could only see him again on Monday morning in an iron coffin.
Old people
The story of Arnaldo, who died according to mefear of Tiziana perhaps from hunger and thirst, surely alone, marks a turning point. The fate of the elderly infected in full emergency, who died alone to prevent the spread of the virus, is likely to extend as even Covid Free hospitals close visits to avoid contagion. Thus leaving the most fragile people without the affection and material help and control of loved ones. A condition that could push many of them to She flees the necessary treatment to prevent what Tiziana calls her father’s kidnapping. There was a climate of omert and tension, he accuses. I understand everything. Also that an elderly person who is not self-sufficient is a burden on staff. But for them it was a number, for me it was my father. And if those three nurses had left me, with the mask, to greet him for a moment, that hug would have been taken by my father.
September 27, 2020 (modified on September 27, 2020 | 15:29)
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