Reggio Emilia, 28 March 2024 – “Afterwards, I asked myself what would have happened if I hadn’t happened to be there that day, at that very moment, if I hadn’t stopped to talk outside, if my friend hadn’t noticed that something wasn’t it went, and so on. Of course, it’s a very strong feeling, it’s indescribable what it feels like when the person wakes up, starts talking and then you realize you’ve saved their life.”
Daniele Tosi, 25 years old, nurse from Reggio Emiliathat day he was returning from the Maldives and certainly could never have imagined what would happen shortly thereafter, at the Orio al Serio in Bergamo: a man, taxi driver of the airport, lying on the ground, the readiness of this young boy to intervene, graduated just a year ago at Unimore and in service at the emergency room of Santa Maria Nuova in Reggio Emilia, cardiac massage, joy and emotion which arrived when that man reopened his eyes and started speaking, under the admiring gaze of many passers-by.
It all happened within 10-15 minutes. A short story, but immensewhich tells of people who didn’t look the other way, but instead they competed to help a man who was about to die. A wonderful story, reported immediately by Bergamo News and then reaching Reggio, which happened last Sunday. As was recognized later, if it had not been for the immediate help provided by Tosi, and then by a female doctor and a doctor, the taxi driver, 74 years old, he wouldn’t have made it.
“It was a combination of many factors which led to the success – Tosi tells Carlino -, at the time it was not an easy decision. I had just returned from a holiday with a friend of mine in the Maldives. We left at 5 in the morning and arrived in Italy after 10pm.”
A very long journey, “to which must be added the 4 hours of time difference. I wasn’t very rested, also because it hadn’t been possible to sleep during the flight. Anyway, we take our bags, leave the airport, my friend looks at me and says ‘I think you should intervene’. I turn around and see that on the Taxi Lane there was a man on the ground, he had probably also hit his head when he fell, a colleague was holding his legs up thinking he was fainting. Without thinking for a second, I climb over the railing, I ran to him and saw that he was already blue. So I tell his colleague to put his legs down immediately because the man on the ground was clearly in cardiac arrest.”
Obvious to the trained eye. And in fact, Tosi also understands from something else what it’s about. “He was breathing badly, a breath that could deceive a ‘lay person’, perhaps make them think they were breathing well and induce them to put the person in a lateral position, as many suggested. Instead, that move would have been wrong. The Sir it was in ‘gasping’, in technical jargon,” or absence of respiratory activity”.
While Tosi begins the cardiac massagewhich serves to avoid irreparable damage to the patient, while the taxi driver’s colleague call 118: “I told him to report that we were in cardiac arrest, so that the ambulance’s exit priority would be high.” Shortly after, “a lady who identified herself as a doctor arrived and, after about three minutes, another arrived with the defibrillator who identified himself as a doctor.”
At that point, “We cut off his clothes, we placed the paddles and delivered the shocks. Then the airport nurse and doctor arrived, with oxygen”. The man woke up and was placed on his side. An indescribable emotion. “What are you doing to me?” he asked, completely at a loss. And the taxi drivers reassured him, explaining that those people there, around him, had helped him. “Then he was taken to hospital, I learned that he underwent surgery.” “Immediately after, I went back to my friend, to take a breath.”
And then Daniele realized: “Le many people who had witnessed the scene they came to compliment me for timely intervention. It was a very strong moment.”
After the article appeared on Bergamo News, the taxi driver’s son launched a appeal For find the person who saved his life.
“They gave my number to their son and we exchanged a few messages – says Daniele Tosi -, he thanked me a lot and told me that his father’s condition had improved. The best wishes what I can do for this person is that he now recovers and Be well”.
When it’s all over, you think that what happened was the result of a series of coincidences, a series of random events. “Let’s say that the event happened in the right place at the right time” Tosi comments today.
From Reggio Emilia, Canalina district, since December he has been working as a nurse in the Reggio emergency room and from the beginning of his studies he felt he wanted to undertake this profession. And certainly not for the working condition: “The nursing profession, in Italyis not valued, there is no proper recognition either on a social or economic level. However, when you take care of a person and they then thank you, the feeling is priceless.”
He defines himself as a cheerful person, “I couldn’t stand being behind a desk, I like it stay in contact with people. When I started college, I said to myself ‘This is my way’. Help, put me at the service of others”. And luckily, on Sunday, due to a whole series of fortuitous circumstances, his path crossed that of another man, who otherwise in all likelihood would not have been saved.
Now we go back to work in Reggio, with the always passion.
