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“President, they just brought your lunch from Arcore. How does she feel? Are we hungry today? It is as if it were an unwritten rule of hospitals, it serves to increase the degree of empathy between the medical staff and the patient. The use of the plural Your MajestyAs we are today, we have measured the fever, we are hungry. The San Raffaele operators are no exception, nor is the patient Silvio Berlusconi. An exception, if possible, are the meals consumed by the former prime minister, which come directly from his home, under the strict control of the doctors coordinated by Professor Alberto Zangrillo. At lunch, for example, a high-protein menu. Throughout yesterday, “day two” of the hospitalization in San Raffaele after the onset of bilateral pneumonia as a result of the Covid-19 infection, Berlusconi has turned his gaze to a turned off television. Until the evening, ironically, the alter ego of the Italian state in the old television duopoly never turned on the television, did not even touch the remote control. Probably, as the very few Forza Italia executives who managed to listen to him for a few minutes say, that the desire to see moving images came back to him after dinner for the friendly Milan-Monza, the football clash between his past full of glory and his future full of hope.
Saturday by phone
In that ideal line between his past, his present and his future, however, it is not football that determines Berlusconi’s movements from his hospital bed. And, at least in these excited days, maybe not even politics. “I can’t wait to hug all my children again” has almost become a mantra for him. Next to the bed, there is a pile of papers that are filled with names by the hour. It is the list of phone calls received, it seems to have no end. The name of Verónica Lario also materialized on the list, who called the San Raffaele switchboard late on Friday afternoon. But the two, ex-husband and ex-wife, could not speak to each other. Yes, she spoke with Marina, Piersilvio, Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi, and how. Berlusconi spent Saturday talking on the phone with them and their grandchildren. A television turned off in front of the eyes, the voice of affection in the ears. Probably the attention and the controversy about the genesis of his infection – the one that prompted both the first and the third child to make public statements of a certain effect – has also hurt him, also engaged from the hospital bed in sewing where something may have torn , reunite, federate families, even before political parties.
“When can I go out?”
“How’s it going? When can I get out? Will I get out of here in eight days?” Instead, they are the questions that enrich the bouquet of questions addressed to Zangrillo, with which the former prime minister has a familiarity of years and years, which allows him to show the side of a man who basically cannot wait to return home, to his family. From the minimum of ten days of hospitalization, of which only two have passed, the head of the intensive care operative area San Raffaele’s general and cardiovascular measures has not moved half a millimeter, for now. Another eight days, plus a period of convalescence and rest at home, in this the doctor was clear, direct, inflexible. “Stable”, “regular”, “Expected”, plus that “reasonable” linked to optimism are the adjectives that Zangrillo uses for the newsletter. They indicate that everything, after the doctor’s choice to admit it, is progressing as it should. A television turned off will continue to monitor the passage of time and what Missing. Along with a nurse that yawns, that tries to make itself heard through protective measures. “Are we hungry today, President?”
September 6, 2020 (change September 6, 2020 | 07:15)
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