CAMAGÜEY.- When Aurora saw entering Ernesto "rewound" the movie of a few minutes earlier. She revised every detail of the farewell and shrank of shoulders. Everything was in order, she concluded alone.
She recorded this scene in slow, calm camera concentrated on her "personage". But when Ernesto explained her the motives of his unexpected entry, the life turned a volcano, in boiling; and she could not already concentrate not on small Marcos.
From last December 22 she is living in accordance with the books that conquered her last title, already three years ago. Aurora, the pediatrician, the chief of the service of intermediate therapy in the "Colonia", turned also the mom of Marcos, who is also Ernesto's son. Marcos was born with the star or the condemnation (as one sees) of consultations at every hour, constant evaluations of his development, meals according to the established in the literature. Not even an "indiscipline" is allowed for a few pediatricians that now have to protect their own child.
That's why shortly after four o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, the 2nd of April, the fright that Ernesto was provoking was a round sacrilege. The milk of her breasts could have felt the damage; and therefore one could, also, water down the menu of her favorite baby, of both. Colic could come. The annoyance could come. It could “water down” the calm life that they prescribe for Marcos.
“When I came that Thursday to the Pediatric Hospital of Florida to fulfill my guard, they were waiting for me to say me that they needed me in this work. If I gave my disposition I had to depart on Sunday, the five towards Camagüey for the training. I came back home and my wife thought that I had had left something. When I gave her the news, imagine, she even cried. The child was only three months old; she felt as she was staying alone with so much”.
Nevertheless, the doctor, the pediatrician, won the wife, the mom, and understood that with the title, with the qualifications (especially them) turn little parents of all the children. And with her small Marcos would be well.
Dad went away of small house and on Monday, April the sixth he continued in insomnia. On Monday, April the 6th he was facing an illness that if they had examined him had not succeeded in October, when he became a specialist.
“I felt fear. I thought about the contagion; in the possibility of not returning home any more, of leaving my family alone forever. Then one ponders the things, and determines: ' if others can, I also can’. I did not sleep any more until the day that I finished the first guard”, says Ernesto and wears the answer with a few emoji of smiling faces.
One could believe that now in isolation the life turns out to be less tense, that's why he "smiles". Five days in the third floor of the Military Hospital of this city, turned into room of pediatrics, stretched the entrails to him as much as possible. And the test of his resistance, that of his but, put it “the smallest of the room, Antonhy of 2 years. One night he alarmed us; he began with light respiratory difficulty; immediately we take all the measures and he improved. But he scared us all.
“This one represents the first acid test. The guards were not easy; the whole night awake, examining the children every 4 hours. It is necessary to watch them very much. In addition to the novel of the illness and the symptoms, the medicines give them reactions: vomiting, fever, very strong”.
The doctor Ruiz Farnot speaks about protocols, about fears, about the first worry for the accident control measures, about terms of bibliography, of symptoms. Nevertheless, from this side of the chat Adelante can "listen" to some noises. Nesty, like he is known by the closest, becomes patient and allows us to see to Adrián, to Sabrina, "his" two medical discharges from Ciego de Ávila. And in this finding goes another big hunch for this text. The Sars-CoV-2 at least has the merit of uncovering the noble people, the people who impels and makes people happy.
Happy was Sabrina with that drawing that the good doctor was giving her when it was time of the farewell. “She became satisfied; she wanted to embrace me, but she understood that we could not”. Sabrina, as mommy and grandmother, faced the COVID - 19. In the house grandfather will not be there already. The bad bug took him. But when she will be older, she should think about grandfather and the sad history of his death, she will remember also the scrawls that in a paper made her smile. Ah, also in paper "scribbled" received the medical discharge this day, but this "gesture" upset her less. Perhaps then, when she will be older, mark the sacred "contact" that she met at her seven years old, and smile again.“ Her mom proved to be very grateful, asked me for the number of my cell phone not to lose the communication. I became satisfied; among the prettiest things of the pediatrics is to see how they return well to their hearths. And the gratitude of his parents makes us feel realized”, he tells, and from this newspaper (without any wisdom in Medicine) one coincides with the accurate of the "diagnosis" of Maria Emilia, David, Yamina.
“My teachers have congratulated me, because they believe that this way, very young, I have been right in it. Every day they were communicating with me; their support has been crucial. I am very proud”, says the doctor Ernesto and then he will understand that there is talent; even in our "non-scientific" prognosis.
One concludes, also, that the genetics is strong. As strong they must be the parents to breed, to form, to give the example. Strong to face the mistakes of the children. Strong to justify or not. Strong to go out to clean the roll. Although at this point of 2020 with a son that became a pediatrician, who made her a grandmother, who went out of house to fight a virus and to saved lives, Rosalina knows already neither who takes care of whom, nor who gives the example.
Doctor Rosi, as assures Ernesto that she is known among colleagues, returns on the steps of her Nesty. Not to amend errors; not to justify him. Rosalina went to remain in the "Military Hospital" to verify if indeed the work was exquisite with 14 children that Nesty "left" her. In times of COVID - 19 mother and son keep on being colleagues.
“I went out and she entered”. And he returns with the emoji of the Messenger, those of the smiling faces. Now pride is foreseen. Especially because he insists on this neat trace that defined him. A lot of Julys and Augusts he spent in hospitals when mom had to take care of other children and also of his. Then, in the specialty and the rotations, the idea turn into purpose: "I remained thrilled with the specialty; I always said to my study partners that I would be a pediatrician”. What is inherited does not withdraw, they say.
Until May, 5th the doctor Ernesto will not be able to come back home. Without embracing fully, since he will continue with the measurements to protect them, it will relieve him to be able to tell the "movie" to his wife seeing her to the eyes, and "discuss" the cases and the professional doubts of these days, and to verify that the Marquito´s milk is perfect, and to have them close, and to love one another. Nevertheless, “if it is necessary of course, I return; as doctor I have to do it. Everything will be well. We will go out of this”.
On May, 5th it will be one month that he left behind Aurora and baby Marcos. On May, 5th Aurora will see Ernesto entering again the door. He will revise every detail of last month, in which in addition to the volcano also Marquitos came to his four months of age, and will shrink of shoulders. Everything continues in order, they will conclude then, in calmness, the two.
Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez