ROME – Dario Marcolin, former Lazio football player and current technical commentator of Dazn, recalled his father Giancarlo , who died of coronavirus , during a long interview with Ivan Zazzaroni for corrieredellosport.it .
“The last two days he hasn't answered anymore, he was significantly worse. We called the department and the answers were "it is stable", "not well", finally "it is not conscious".
An unstoppable descent. When asked if it was a matter of hours or days, they said "hours". Gianca left in two weeks, died on Wednesday, had entered the hospital, at the new Poliambulanza in Brescia, Thursday 12.
First a little fever. He was at risk, and not just because he was 75 years old. He weighed one hundred and fifty kilos, was a big man of over one meter and eighty and suffered from hypertension. The virus has found fertile ground.
In the early days, those in the hospital had suggested that we monitor their condition at home.
On the fourth day of fever, 39 and a half, forty, my brother, who works in cosmetics, asked the partner to give her the machine that measures the saturation of oxygen in the blood.
The minimum value is 92, my father was 78. When we communicated it to the hospital they went to get it immediately. He had his cell phone with him. Yes, we heard it with a certain frequency, he took off Venturi's mask, the one for oxygenation, and he spoke to us.
Slowly the calls have thinned out and shortened. After thirty seconds he couldn't take it anymore. When it got worse they resorted to subcutaneous morphine, did not accept the mask, what they vulgarly call as a diver, He just could not tolerate it.
He said that a minute with that thing seems like a year. We were prepared for the worst. But the worst is never as you imagine it.
I had gone to see him at home in early February, I won't even have the chance to kiss him on the forehead.
In our same conditions are all those who have lost someone they loved. I do not blame anyone, it is not a normal situation that we are experiencing. And Gianca was so sunny … ".
(source Ivan Zazzaroni for corrieredellosport.it).
Source: Blitz Quotidiano