06/06/2021 12:43
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 06/06/2021 12:43
"Hope is the last thing you lose," goes the popular saying.
And so it was for the family and friends of
Ilvio “Kako” Dotti
, a 31-year-old young man who managed to defeat the coronavirus after spending
47 days in intensive care
and was received
like a hero
by the neighbors of Obispo Trejo, a small town in Cordoba. 136 kilometers from the provincial capital, where he lives with his family.
Dotti contracted coronavirus on Friday, April 16.
At least that day he woke up with characteristic symptoms and breathing problems, so the swab gave him positive and he was hospitalized for observation.
That same day the man was referred to Villa Santa Rosa, but as his condition continued to worsen, he was transferred again to the Rawson Hospital in the city of Córdoba.
The young man, who had no pre-existing diseases except being overweight, did not even say goodbye to his wife - who is pregnant - and their seven-year-old son.
In total, he remained in intensive care for 47 days,
34
of which
were in a coma
.
In dialogue with
La Voz
, Dotti said that
"they were days of terror"
and that at first they kept him asleep because "he did not understand anything."
"Before they transferred me from Santa Rosa to Córdoba, I remember asking my sister not to do it.
'If they take me, I won't come back
,
'
he told her. I had a bad feeling that my situation would get worse," he recalled .
One of the messages Kako received after his hospitalization.
Photo: courtesy La Voz
According to the Cordovan portal, Kako, as his intimates call him, was infected with an
intrahospital virus
that had him with a high fever for six days.
"There was a point where
the doctors did not know what else to do
, they even called my family asking them to come and say hello because there was no way to recover," he adds.
The young man began to react to the medications and made a recovery in the last days of May, although he had lost consciousness of time.
"When the doctor asked me how many days I thought had passed, I told him two or three. I remember mentioning to him that my son's birthday was coming soon, which was May 14. I never imagined that not only had his complies, but had been in a coma for 34 days. "
Finally,
on June 2, he was discharged.
His brother Gerardo went to look for him at the Mercy Hospital, where he had spent his last stretch of hospitalization.
In Obispo Trejo a caravan of neighbors was waiting for him at the entrance to the town.
In the images you can see a long line of cars honking and clapping to greet Dotti.
"Thank you, thank you," he and his wife are listened to before the displays of affection.
A story that had a happy ending, in the midst of so much anguish.
DD
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