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The sad new year for the family of a patient who has been hospitalized for days. “A disconcerting wait for news: he cannot speak, he only writes a few messages”
VITTORIO VENETO. Christmas, New Years, Epiphany are just dates on the calendar in the endless sequence of days anyway, waiting for news from the hospital. Dinners and parties are thoughts that no longer exist, if anything painful memories of knowing that Dad is in a hospital room on oxygen.
It is the story of Marco, made up name, son of one of the more than 120 patients at Vittorio’s Covid hospital, a 75-year-old man who lives in the Coneglianese area with a passion for singing and opera that got worse at home. just before Christmas. Positive buffer, fever, low saturation, shortness of breath. It is the story of thousands of children, brothers, husbands and wives who spent the last night of the year in anguish. Next to the phone, in the absence of the person you love.
“My dad can’t talk, he can’t, a couple of times a day he manages to send us a message on WhatsApp, he’s the only contact we have” says Marco, “but what we know is very little. Once a doctor called us at Vittorio’s, I know my father has pneumonia and constantly needs oxygen, I don’t know anything else. It is difficult to receive news and updates from time to time, I can understand it, there are many patients to follow. But the whole situation makes us anxious, we don’t know what to expect. “
It is the night of December 31, but there is very little difference. The absence is amplified, the physical presence is missing, the voice is missing, thinking “I know where it is, I know it is fine.” “For me these are not parties, absolutely. In fact, it helps emotionally to think of them as normal days of a 2020 that is thankfully ending. Knowing that it is a year that is ending gives a minimum of comfort, but it is only a psychological term, it could not change anything in 2021. And our days are marked by waiting, be it December 31 or another day.
Marco has a girl, he is very fond of his grandfather, he sends him messages. But the grandfather has had a fever since before Christmas, even the grandmother caught it, which luckily is better. «New Year’s Eve was an opportunity to meet all together, not being able to visit him or my mother, because it was positive, and being alone with the baby at home is what saddens me the most. Mom will have the result of the last swab on January 2, it is not certain that it will be negative, she must remain isolated ”.
The worst thing today is not the absence. It is not knowing when it will end: “Nobody knows how long he will be in the hospital, nobody can tell us. In my life I have always tried to cheer up my mom, who tends to be pessimistic herself, while I would be the most optimistic, but now I just can’t do it. Dad is not well, he could have a crisis at any moment as has happened to many other people, even younger than him. In the last few months we have all heard what this virus can do. Knowing that one day is better than the previous one does not reassure me at all, until I am out of it we are not calm. No, it is not the perfect day for good wishes. –
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