MINUTE and determined. With her eyes fixed straight in the face of the speaker. Aware of the fact that his future is played out in a few weeks. “How is it possible? Why do I have to pay for the indifference of others? I am a cancer patient, I have to undergo an operation that is vital for me, but the hospitals are full of unvaccinated Covid patients. Tell me: what the c …. can I do Is an experimental vaccine worse than cancer? “. The words written on her Facebook profile by Laura Di Siena, 42, a kindergarten teacher in a municipality near Milan, have the flavor of the lucid awareness of having no time to waste.
On April 10 the shock
Laura Di Siena’s story-nightmare starts from 10th April last. She tells it herself: “I went to the emergency room by chance, I had a severe headache. The doctors, unfortunately, found me a rare tumor of the thymus, positioned between the heart and the lungs. It was a shock, but I decided to react. From that moment on, my life changed: it was a constant in and out of hospitals “. “I told myself that I would do everything possible. So I turned to a hospital in the Milanese area – continues the woman -. There are only three structures in Italy, all concentrated in Lombardy, capable of treating this tumor, which no longer counts. of 200 cases a year and is treated with an experimental protocol. One of those three is the hospital I went to. I immediately underwent a biopsy, not without problems because the therapies were crowded; then to a cycle of chemotherapy. They were strong, but they worked because the mass had shrunk so that surgery was possible. So, three weeks ago, I did a pre-hospitalization. They said they would call me within two weeks. “
There is no room, the intervention is postponed
And in these days, actually, from the Lombard hospital a management secretary phoned Laura Di Siena. Except it wasn’t to communicate the date of the surgery. “She was sorry, she could hear her voice – continues the patient -. She told me that, unfortunately, there has been a cut in the number of beds in the ordinary wards due to Covid, and that ICUs are also congested. I have the lucky to live near Milan, however for me this means staying on the waiting list I don’t know for how long “. In the meantime, Di Siena’s Green pass has expired, as six months have passed since he received the second dose of Astrazeneca. And he can’t do the third because it could burden his lungs. “Doctors said that while waiting for surgery, the two worst things for me would be to have Covid and get pregnant,” she points out.
Blocked by those who do not vaccinate
“In the words of the surgeon who told me about the operation, I caught the concern in my regard – recalls Di Siena -. He said that the intensive care units are occupied by the cases of Covid that arrive daily: all no vax. And that as soon as it is released. a place they will operate on me. I am waiting with the enormous fear that this waiting will not make the hard road traveled up to here in vain. And many other people are in my situation. I am lucky because I am young, but I think of the older ones who , postponed from month to month, they do not have the opportunity to wait very long. We are all in the same situation, all at the mercy of those who did not want to get vaccinated and are now sick “
“What can a vaccine do worse than cancer?”
“Why is thinking of others so difficult? – concludes the woman – I am young, I am a mother and unfortunately I am sick. What could an experimental vaccine do worse than cancer? Tell me. You realize that cancer kills and its incidence increases. ? Do not get a vaccine, but escaping from cancer is not possible. Wouldn’t you be happy to have the chance to heal due to the lack of attention of others? what greater efforts there are than a vaccine. They exist and they are really disheartening. You enter an oncology ward and you will realize how much you are willing to endure to have another chance “.
The alarm of the surgeons
The Italian Society of Surgery (Sic) testifies that Covid has had, and may have, a strong impact on the scheduling of surgical interventions, even on serious cancer patients: “Over 400 thousand operations and more than one million of hospitalizations were canceled in 2020. A slowdown that still continues in 2021 “. And the figures go up if, in addition to general surgery, specialist ones are added: a million frozen operations, calculates the Sic. Now the waiting lists, already saturated, have been extended by an average of three months, but in some cases it reaches more than six months. Prevention has also been heavily neglected: millions of tests have been skipped, crucial screenings for early diagnosis, which is almost always the key to surviving cancer.
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