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Edward Blandón, between medicine and music


Edward Blandón is an intensivist at the San Vicente Fundación hospital in Medellín and has a crucial responsibility in the ICU. He is also a dad and a musician.

13 Jul 2020 11:19By: canalrcn.com

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This is the story of Edward Blandón, an intensivist at the San Vicente Fundación hospital in Medellín, who has a crucial responsibility in this critical unit. The health professional is also a dad and a musician.

It is polluted terrain and death wants to win, but one of its rivals is the 41-year-old intensivist Edward Blandón. He has a difficult mission: to order and practice the intubation of patients who do not know if they will overcome the disease.

Every day she looks at those faces that communicate anguish. Some closed their eyes forever and others came back to life.

It’s frustrating even not being able to shake hands or hug or celebrate effusively with each other and shake hands and say: what we are doing is so cool because we have to contain ourselves, ”says Blandón.

But the medicine to resist the strenuous days and the emotional charge is his family.

“Every time I go to the hospital, every time I change my clothes, every time I wash my hands, every time I see a patient, everything I do, I do thinking about my family, thinking about my children, my wife and my parents. Thinking of never risking them, ”says the professional tearfully.

They are tears of love and fear, but he is not alone, his wife and two children, Federico and Lucas, 21 and three years old, give him back the strength he needs to continue.

His other vocation, known to few and which also heals but with melody, is music. He is a guitarist and vocalist in a dream that has only just begun called ‘Side Effects’.

“I want to return to those things that are spaces of one, moments of one, that add flavor to life and give space for reflection”, surely.

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And when the storm passes, he wants to compose the melody of his history, the one that lives today in those corridors where he wins and loses. Thank you, ICU hero!

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