Nunzia de Girolamo, how are you?
“Now better. Also because I started contrast therapy at Covid-19 ».
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What is it taking?
«Cortisone twice a day and antibiotics. Sunday I started to feel bad, I felt as if I had animals moving inside my body, pains, a sense of tiredness never felt before. Then the fever, 37 and five, 37 and three, 37 and seven, rose and fell. When I took the swab on Monday, the doctor left me the prescription with the drugs even before I knew the outcome. I had had many tampons in the past, also because my husband (Minister Francesco Boccia, ed) of people meets so many and therefore we are well controlled. And yet, for the first time, this Monday went out of balance. “The symptoms are clear.” He was right”.
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Did you understand how the infection took place?
“Yup. Last week I had to go to Benevento. I went to my parents’ house, who were fine. A few hours after my return to Rome, my sister tested positive. My mom got a tampon and was waiting for the outcome for days, but she too was positive ».
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You go back to Rome and …?
“Regardless of everything, I start an isolation inside the house, on Friday they give me a tampon. Negative result. Despite this, given the incubation times of the virus, I continue to be isolated from the rest of the family ».
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Very responsible.
“In light of what happened next, yes. I do not hide, however, that among my friends there are those who called me a psychopath. “You swab, it’s negative, why are you locked up?”. Even my 8-year-old daughter struggled to understand. “Mom but why are you staying with your mask inside the house?” ».
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How did you organize yourself?
“I’m locked up in the master bedroom, which luckily has an en-suite bathroom. I have a window on the terrace, which other rooms also overlook. My daughter comes to look at me from the window, we exchange messages from under the door. All in maximum safety, as with food ».
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Does your husband bring it to you?
“He doesn’t cook, he delivers. He leaves the tray for me in front of the bedroom door, then leaves. I open the door, take everything inside, eat the meal and then leave the tray after having sanitized it where I had taken it ».
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Scusi?
“Like many of the children terrified of the infection, Gea links Covid-19 to death. When we told her I tested positive, she started to cry and despair. For almost 24 hours she has spent most of her time leaning against my closed door, with me reassuring her from inside ».
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Are you afraid?
“I’d be lying if I told her I don’t have any. When the pains and the fever started on Sunday, despite having taken a negative swab, I started to worry. At night I started watching a series on Netflix and there was no talk of falling asleep until four in the morning ».
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And now?
«I try to distract myself by playing with my daughter, even if at a distance. Let’s make the “Anna and Elsa” of the Disney movie, Frozen».
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She locked in a room. Messages to the outside world?
“Covid-19 exists, it is strong, treacherous, it also hides in the people who love us most, who are attentive, who risk little. One in particular, a message: if you think you are not well, waiting to understand, isolate yourself from the rest of the world. And remember incubation times even at the cost of being called a psychopath, as happened to me “.
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