Paula and João were among the first patients with covid to enter the Curry Cabral Hospital. He on March 13, stayed 22 days. She at 15, and for 68 days. On the 16th, both went to intensive care. They stood side by side, without knowing. Their love is like this, “united in health and disease”, they joke. There, João was ten days, Paula 38. When they woke up, they didn’t speak, they didn’t move, they didn’t know what had happened. João thought he had been kidnapped, Paula that the world was at war. It was the first sign of the suffering that the disease brings to her: terrible nightmares, an intense fear of not knowing whether she is alive or not, and hallucinations. A month after Paula’s discharge, they tell how it was. Normality arrives little by little, but with some sequels.
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