It all started in the emergency room of Arezzo for an eye problem. Then the symptoms and hospitalization, up to intubation. “When my roommate died, I broke down,” he said on his Facebook profile
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“For everyone and for the skeptics: because they too will realize it when a close person is dying, but it will already be late”. This is the message sent to the young by Lorenzo Stocchi, 35, from Tuscany, infected with Coronavirus (LIVE UPDATES – THE SPECIAL) and hospitalized in Arezzo. He also ended up in intensive care, from which he came out, and as soon as he recovered he decided to write about Facebook a long post in which she told her story, which started from an emergency room access on October 19 for an eye problem.
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The first symptoms and the rising fever
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“Five days after the emergency room, while I was in the office – writes Stocchi – I got a slight headache and when I got home I had a fever of 37.3. I automatically isolated myself. The next morning I went, privately, to do the serological test which was negative. But once home, the fever had risen to 38.5 “. The boy explains that he had no other symptoms, but the fever continued to rise despite the medication. “After another three days, my doctor asked me for the tampon, unfortunately there was no place available in the whole province and I had to wait another 24 hours. Not wanting to involve anyone from the family, I took the car and I went alone to swab the drive-through – continues the boy – but I already felt that something had changed, I was short of breath and I was beginning to struggle to speak “.
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The shelter and the helmet to breathe
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Stocchi’s story continues until hospitalization, a few days after having had the first symptoms. “When the USCA arrived, I could no longer speak. From the bedroom to the bathroom I was out of breath. Breathing was difficult and I felt like a freshly caught fish … I gasped.” The arrival at the San Donato hospital, the waiting to enter the emergency room for “five other ambulances in front of me” and the X-ray. “With chest x-ray, they found that the right lung was practically collapsed, and the left was also bad,” he writes. “Then they put on a helmet to breathe (CPAP, which I kept for 11 very long days), oxygen shot at 60lt / minute, a deafening and continuous noise that prevented me from hearing what the doctors were saying”.
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Intensive care and the death of the roommate
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“At that point they took me to intensive care .. And the nightmare began. Between arterial catheter, venous catheter, peripheral access, bladder catheter, probes, tubes … I was very limited in my movements and could not move my arms well to write to my loved ones to seek comfort. I was isolated “, Stocchi still remembers. The worst moment of his experience is the death of the person with whom he was in the room: “Even though I didn’t know him, he had been there next to me for three days. At that point I collapsed – explains the boy – During the endless nights, I had uncontrollable fits of tears. A cry of despair that I never expected from me, always cynical and rational “.
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The slow recovery and the message: “It was terrible”
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After a few days in intensive care, the first signs of recovery arrive: “The resuscitation doctor tried to make me sit on my stomach, which between the helmet and all the rest was a hallucinating situation, but luckily I was sedated. Miraculously, the alveoli have started to reopen. From there the slow recovery began. They brought me back to infectious diseases with the helmet, and from that moment I am doing a sort of oxygen weaning .. The lungs have restarted thanks to the very high volumes of oxygen and now I have to relearn to breathe normally “. Now Stocchi continues to have oxygen to help with breathing, but the worst is over. And what the young man wants to leave to his Facebook friends is that “it was a terrible experience … We must prevent the virus at all costs, raise awareness and convince the skeptics”.
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