Grueling shifts, patients not only elderly but of all ages who suddenly worsen "for no apparent reason", due to a virus that does not seem to follow any "precise pattern": it is the story of what has now become the everyday life of a San Gerardo of Monza in the time of Coronavirus, which also has the power to divide families.
"It would be nice to have a way to put patients in intensive care and their loved ones in contact, but unfortunately there isn't," he explained. Patients are in isolation and "when without any sensible reason suddenly the lungs stop working, as they went out, sometimes without being able to recover the situation, there is no time to think about the calls" There are no tablets. And even the masks are scarce. "Let's say there aren't always and there are less and less", continued the nurse, "and since it was decided to suspend the tampons, many of us live alone, after sending families to the house of friends and relatives, not to put them at risk, and it's very hard. "
For the nurses, as the professional from Monza said, "safety is not guaranteed because protection would decimate attendance, a sacrifice that even if it is difficult to accept, if we don't do it, who does it?". The decree of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers requires to stay at home but "evidently many do not yet understand it, and ours is a prayer, after the kind request, perhaps too much, of the State", continued the professional "if the indications they will be respected maybe in twenty, thirty days we will see an improvement ". This evening, for him like his colleagues, another night opens: "the worst moment, because there are few of us, fatigue weighs and there is a lot of silence".
