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"I have been hospitalized for ten days. My situation has worsened: I have passed out twice, I am in bed with oxygen and I take medication in the morning and at night, in addition to the fixed intravenous. The fever has disappeared for two days, but my lungs need help ... " Cremona Hospital , Department of Infectious Diseases . Alessandra is 56 years old , works as a social worker and health assistant in the Maleo residence. He is from Codogno , has two children and a granddaughter. Alessandra lives hooked day and night to oxygen, can not speak. He relates his experience writing on his mobile phone: "The only connection I have left with the world".

When did he discover that he had been infected with coronavirus? I had a fever after a night on duty at work: bone pain, mild cough, I treated him like a flu, with paracetamol and mucolytic. But he didn't heal ... He was getting worse every day. I called 112, but I had no contact with infected people. After nine days with a high fever, my children came back annoyed a little. An ambulance arrived, all in the suit ... "That day Codogno was already a" red zone ". I was first hospitalized in Cremona in a clinic used as a field hospital. There I had the first tests. When I had the result they sent me to infectious people. What did you think when they told you the diagnosis? I felt like in a circle of hell. They tell you, but you don't understand what awaits you and it's better that way. It kills you. You have a bent body, a stomachache, With nausea and vomiting, it is unbearable, the fever makes you burn. And how is it now? Monday was my worst day. I felt helpless, my husband had also been hospitalized in sub-intensive care in Lodi. I could not see a way out. I wanted to scream, my father was already in the hospital in Lodi ... For coronavirus? For pneumonia, at the moment, he still does not have the test result.How did he get Covid-19? The custodian of my school Granddaughter tested positive, talked to her tomorrow and afternoon. An employee of the residence where I work is infected and hospitalized here in Cremona. But I found out later. Or maybe I caught him somewhere else without realizing it ... "Do you have information in the hospital about what is going on around you? No visitors are allowed. The room has two beds, but the TV is turned to the other bed and the headphones are there. Time does not pass. And the doctors? They come in the morning and are friendly and helpful. The staff too, but they have order to enter as little as possible. Sometimes they call us from the glass ... Who does she share a room with? A much younger woman, she has been hospitalized for 12 days, she has gotten worse and we can't talk, she doesn't want to eat ... you would like to, but after two spoons you already feel nauseous. What do you think of in such a moment? In my two children, in my husband, he is 58 years old, with his beautiful blue eyes he has animated our lives since we got married, in May it will be 33 years ... In my 8 year old granddaughter who has sent me a drawing by phone. He had painted the room and the therapies, all with the imagination. s? The what? I hope I have been clear: this is not a normal flu.

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