It is a ghost, a resident of Barcelona, Eduardo Lozano, 60, who was admitted to hospital and plunged into an artificial coma on March 22, 2020 and who has only just left the establishment on Friday, weakened, helped walker, but alive after two years and 45 days in hospital. An eternity. “I didn’t think I would get outhe told the Catalan channel TV3, when I woke up from my coma I looked like a corpse, I couldn’t move, I weighed 35 kilos, I had to relearn everything, and that’s what I was able to do, thanks to the nursing staff.”
Eduardo Lozano is no longer the same. Before, he was a taxi driver, he loved motor sports, hiking, traveling, running. So many things that belong to the past. His knees are very damaged because of the position he kept for two years, lying on his stomach. His face is also marked, we can still see the traces of the prolonged intubation which left him with scars at the corner of his lips. His body has changed, his landmarks too. He who had neither wife, nor children, nor parents, no longer has an apartment. It is a friend who came to fetch him and who takes him in. Also finished his taxi license, Eduardo is officially disabled and can no longer drive.
Like all patients suffering from long Covid, a hundred in France for example, he must reinvent everything, rewrite the list of things that matter. Starting with reconciling with your body, managing to walk alone, to carry yourself on your legs. And then, to eat well, to savor good food again, “it’s not that the hospital food was bad, he said, but… still, a good restaurant and chops, I wouldn’t say no.“
Eduardo Lozano makes a list of simple pleasures, essential joys, such as walking with his friend’s dogs, two chihuahuas who have not left him since he moved in on Friday May 6, seeing his colleagues too, his friends, talking, laugh, share the meal, and finally, rediscover his city, Barcelona, ”because everything has changedhe says daily El Diario, there are forbidden directions where there were none, blocked streets…”And cycle paths, the “coronapistes”, which have sprung up everywhere. “Finally, what is your plan for the years to come? asks the journalist:My plan is to enjoy life, enjoy being alive!“