ASCOLI – From the New York Marathon to the Covid drama. The virus also hits hard even those who, like the entrepreneur Angela Velenosi, not only have physique, have been careful and do not fall into the risk categories: indeed they should be safeguarded by a healthy and sporty lifestyle, by the knowledge of the most up-to-date information. «And yet for 14 days I have been fighting against the most serious symptoms of the disease» confirms the Lady of Wine, especially terrified of ending up in hospital.
Were you afraid of dying?
“It was an ordeal and only now, after two weeks, have I found a minimum of strength to recover. It will also take a long time to return to release the energy of the past. But I’m optimistic, it will take a little while, but I’ll make it. Even if I fear a relapse as happened to a friend of mine and at times I was tempted to be hospitalized because I saw no alternative ».
But she was treated at home.
“It wasn’t easy on my own in the conditions I was in. I could not get out of bed, if I did I would pass out, I could not stand up. Then I was shaking like a leaf and most of the time with my eyes closed, I coughed, I lost my sense of taste and then I felt joint pain, shortness of breath and a tightness in my chest. Not to mention that I was bathed in sweat: my daughter, Marianna, did 9 washing machines in 5 days, the sheets got soaked all the time. That’s why at a certain point hospitalization was also evaluated which, fortunately, I escaped ».
He obviously had to take drugs.
“A hell. I, who never feel bad, who have never taken a tachipirina, are filled with antipyretics and painkillers, but the fever did not go down. I’m going on medication cocktails, I do 50 milliliters of cortisone a day, they changed me two antibiotics and prescribed heparin too. If you don’t go through it, you can’t understand. The doctors assist me by telephone, otherwise how would I have done? ».
Have you got any idea how she might have become infected?
«First Constantine, my partner, who also developed a principle of pneumonia, got sick. A couple of weeks ago he came home and immediately showed symptoms of the disease. Fever at 39. He had a swab which unfortunately tested positive. I immediately put myself in isolation but it wasn’t enough. A few days later it was my turn. Fortunately, none of the family members contracted the virus. The boys (Matteo is the other son, ed) live on the coast, no one has had any consequences on the farm, they are all negative. The production goes on and just yesterday the good news arrived that our novello was the best in Italy, with a score of 89/100, according to the technical jury of the XIV national competition of new wines ».
How did he spend his days?
«Marianna always took care of deliveries, she was my guardian angel. He came, brought us our meals, left them outside the door and then we ate them. But even that was a huge effort because I just didn’t feel like it ».
Now that she is a little better, what does this experience leave her?
«A reflection of a political nature, because we are politics: it is clear that thousands of people have requested health care at the same time. And it is also true that each of us already knew the shortcomings of our health. Are collapsing hospitals new topics? Calling nursing staff and nurses heroes doesn’t help understand how we got here. It is more worth talking about a mediocre politics that has filled our eyes with nothing, eating up the basis of our social life. Where have our money and taxes gone? Evidently not in hospitals, infrastructure or schools. Why have we citizens accepted all this? What deceived us? What made us so distant from those who decide? Why are we talking about parties and not programs? Why do we argue between left and right if the management is the same? After all that we are going through, after seeing our loved ones suffer, after a year of closures, what else are we waiting for to return to politics with interest and listening? Here, these are all questions that I have asked myself these days ».
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