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We were in full Covid19 emergency, in Lombardy there was an uninhabitable condition from all points of view and the risk of contagion was felt in the air. There was so much fear, it was necessary to stay home so as not to make in vain the sacrifices that doctors and health workers were making to save the lives of patients hospitalized for this new disease. One day it also happened to a fellow journalist, Vito Romaniello.
Vito collaborated with me and Valentina Petrini on the television show. False – The News Factory, broadcast on Canale Nove. He was working in the newsroom when he suddenly decided to go home, he was not feeling well and it was better to remove the curtains for safety. Shortly thereafter came that bad and shocking news that none of us wanted to imagine: Vito was hospitalized in intensive care, had Covid.
The show was obviously stopped, we couldn’t continue and we were all worried about him, especially since at some point we found out that he had been in a drug coma and we didn’t know when and if he would wake up.
We stopped with him, but luckily we started again with him decisively. Tonight he will take part in the first episode of the new season of False – The News Factory to respond to the nonsense of the deniers of the virus and the disease, also recounting his experience through a video in which the testimony of the doctors who saved his life is recounted.
The game of life
As a sports journalist, he could only title his story “The game of life” where there are references to football:
«Sardinia, February 3, 2020, in Sassari and Alghero to shoot some historical-sports interviews. Accompanied by a couple of friends. February 13, 2020, in Sassuolo to meet center forward Ciccio Caputo. It is nice to travel through Italy and talk about sport, territory, typical products. Even too much. On March 10, 2020, less than a month passes and the scenario is completely different: a hospital bed in the Intensive Care Unit of the Varese hospital. In front of you is a wrong and bastard opponent, who disguises himself as a cold, bypasses your defenses and hits the lungs. It’s called Covid 19 and it just passed on to me. ‘
«The team is generous and prepared, strong and determined. Oss, nurses, doctors and anesthetists fight to stop the virus. Fifteen days of drug coma and then waking up. The result is recaptured. The odds of winning it look good. The enemy does not give up, on the contrary. Pneumonia takes over, a quarter of the left lung works, intubated a second time. The virus has the upper hand again. They all fight to avoid the tracheostomy, to make me breathe with a cannula inserted directly into my throat.
“In the world of dreams where I have found refuge, I realize for the first time that I am in the hospital. And I am not alone. The prayers of those who love me, the thoughts of family, friends, colleagues … in this REM phase I feel their support. I have to wake up. I still have too many things to do. I open my eyes again, a jolt when all seems lost. The result is balanced again. A week of observation always in Intensive Care, this time the defense holds. They can transfer me to pulmonology and start rehabilitation. The game is won.
«I feel a discomfort in my chest, where I placed the catheters, I would like to scratch myself. I can’t move my arms. I ask for help, the words do not come out. I’d like to be heard, I’m out of breath. The whisper is incomprehensible. Two come to turn me on the other side, I just can’t even move on the bed. I’m standing with my head, not really even moving a finger. Four weeks of small movements before the transfer to another clinic, in Cunardo, in the province of Varese, new field, old game. They accompany me to the window of the room on the second floor. I can see my family on the street. More than two months have passed since the ambulance took me.
«I would like to hug my wife Daniela, hug my children Luca and Simona, it is not possible. I feel a burning in my chest, a chill running down my spine. I feel a sudden and powerful charge. According to the protocol, four weeks of physical therapy are needed to be able to move independently. Too many. Ten days to get up, go from the wheelchair to the walker, from the crutches to the cane. On June 4 I walk out that door with my legs. We come back home “.
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