Perhaps many of you have not noticed that a virus called corona is circulating in Italy right now.
As of this writing, 1439 people in Italy have recovered and I know one. He is a dear friend of mine from the university, one of those with whom I shared the pre-exam sweating and post-exam alcoholism. We shared stories with girls when they were morbid and toasted together when we found the one who put the ring on our finger. In short, we are like Euryalus and Niso, including homoerotic complicity.
When he was hospitalized for the crown he told me. When he recovered I decided to have him tell his story in the only form that makes sense to read: the list.
10 things I noticed when I got sick and recovered from the coronavirus
# 1 When you tell people you have the crown, the inquisition starts. They want to know where you’ve been, who you’ve seen and when. If they understand that you are in no way a threat to them, then they ask you how you are.
# 2 The difference between those who have chosen the medical career for status and money and those who have chosen it with passion is huge. Those in the first group are under a train of resentment and fatigue these days. The latter are the highest expression of humanity.
# 3 The first symptoms were very mild. Dry cough, bone ache and I had a few lines of fever. I had already taken paracetamol to go to work but my wife advised me to have a checkup.
# 4 I had never been in an ambulance. With me there were two people wrapped in white overalls. None of this has affected me as much as they did. Full of optimism and anecdotes. There are a lot of TV series set in hospitals but the one inside the ambulance is missing.
# 5 Nobody says it but the tampon in the nose hurts.
# 6 I’m an anxious person. I experienced the feeling of lack of air several times, often before sleeping. This time it was different. I lacked air but trying to swallow it made me cough.
# 7 The fear of dying is stronger when you are healthy. When I was sick I was in the hands of doctors. Like when I had a fever as a child and my mom stroked my forehead.
# 8 The worst thing in the hospital is the night. The noises are amplified. The coughs echo in the silence of the rooms. During the day, on the other hand, to exorcise we also joke about what scares us at night. I understand that doctors can make irony about the disease. The alternative is to get overwhelmed.
# 9 When you start getting better, the first thought goes to others. In sickness we become more selfish. Vasco is right: “When I have a stomach ache, do I have you or not?”.
# 10 Once you are healed you feel like you finished the class test first. You can get up from the desk and leave the classroom, but you have no one to chat with.
# 10 / bis During this experience I shit myself with fear. And luckily it happened to me before the hospitals were clogged. So to close I would like to say one thing: it seems to me that one in six people who contract the crown needs intensive care and certainly the places are not enough. Since you have lived the last 20 years of your catatonic life on the sofa watching reruns of Dragonball and reality, communicating with the outside world only via phone, chat or caustic comments on facebook: how about taking advantage of these years of training and staying at home ?
