“I said it was a flu, for a year I have been living in a limbo between hospital therapies and oxygen at home. Take it today? Lethal”: Filippo’s long-Covid

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“So it’s just a fever”, “So then it passes”, “It affects the elderly”, are phrases that we have said in many, even Filippo Sagona. Today, he is one of those “ghosts”, as he says – neither positive, nor dead, nor asymptomatic – to which the virus has completely changed your life. The so-called long-Covid patients. Public employee with a passion for Vespas, a hobby from which many projects have emerged, today Filippo is still ill. For a year she has been fighting against very heavy symptoms, pains, breathing difficulties, memory problems, mood swings, and, above all, oxygen to face the days. Days of rehabilitation in the Cardiovascular Operative Unit coordinated by Dr. Filippo Sarullo, of the Buccheri La Ferla Fatebenefratelli Hospital, therapies and the turn of many experts to understand only if and when he will recover.

A “cursed limbo” in which there is also the fear of leaving the house “because catching the virus would be lethal for me”, says Filippo, who was unable to get vaccinated due to his condition. Filippo got sick at a time when there was still no vaccine, when coronavirus was still dying on ambulances, in a region like Sicily, where today there is still a lot of resistance to vaccinating. But he, who would like it, cannot have it, at least according to some opinions. Even on this, in fact, the doctors he has heard are split. “It is a new pathology – affirms Sarullo – of which we are learning to know beyond the acute phase, the sequelae, even serious, which can affect up to 40% of Covid patients “. For a year, the virus has brought with it many things in Filippo’s life. Even the certainties of normality, also made up of smiles and games with children, which are difficult today.

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