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“We saved you, but you saved us.” With these words of thanks, Giuseppe Vallo, physician in charge of Respiratory Rehabilitation at the Lanzo Hospital in the Intelvi Valley, in the Como area, wanted to share on social networks the story of a 90-year-old man suffering from Covid, who in 15 days left intensive care and now is healing. A testimony full of strength and humanity that began on November 1, when the old man had crossed the hospital door in critical condition and had told the doctor, shaking his hand: “Doctor, I’m 90 years old and I’ve done everything I had to do in my life, let me go. “
“The day after he was admitted his oxygenation was so low that we had to put on a CPAP helmet with a 100% oxygen percentage to help him breathe,” Vallo says in a long post on his Facebook profile. In his eyes. I saw that of my father, who is the same age, and his disturbing and at the same time so humble request caused me such a grip on my heart, that it seemed that I was the one who lacked oxygen. In the following days, doctors and nurses gave him the same attention and attention reserved for each patient and in two weeks the 90-year-old improved significantly.
“I was able to show her family members in a video call and I always tried to give her value – explains Vallo – The nurses and health workers have done their work with love, standing by her side at every possible moment and now that she has left the room intensive is beautiful again. as before. “Between rehabilitation walks with physiotherapists, the team’s next goal is to take him home soon:” He thanked us so many times for what we have done for him – writes the doctor – but in reality he does not know that it is us to thank him because his The beginning of recovery gives us hope and the desire to continue fighting every day ”.
