Life Saving ICU Nurse Devastated She Couldnt Save Hubby

Story By: Lisa-Maria Goertz, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Newsflash

A Brazilian nurse working in an intensive care unit who saved many lives during the pandemic has spoken of her desperation at being unable to save her husband.

The 33-year-old nursing technician Viviane Sozzi works as a nursing technician in the ICU of Praia Grande hospital in the municipality of Sao Paulo, in Brazil’s southeast region.

According to national newspaper G1, the nurse is grieving the loss of her husband Alan Sozzi, 39, who died from complications Covid-19 while at her hospital.

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Viviane told G1: “I saved lives, but not his.

“The hardest thing for me was working there, saving the lives of other patients, and not being able to save him. That was the most painful and saddest.”

According to G1, Sozzi said her husband began to experience symptoms of coronavirus, such as fever, tiredness and body pain. A few days later, the condition worsened and he had to go to the emergency department of the municipality.

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Viviane said: “On that day he was admitted to the hospital, I was on duty there. He was seen and then released for treatment at home.”

But Viviane said her husband’s condition only worsened.

She said: “I thought he would have a cardiac arrest at home, but I managed to put him in the car and take him to a local clinic. Later, he went to the field hospital in the city, but was quickly transferred to the ICU reserved for the disease at Hospital Irma Dulce, where he received all the support.

“I am a nursing technician in the general ICU, and he was in the COVID ICU. It was very painful to know that he was there, so close and so far. Our daughter made a drawing for him on the computer, the day before he died, and asked me to deliver it. She said it was to give him the strength to return home “.

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However, Alan did not resist and died at dawn on Sunday 23rd August.

Viviane said: “He was suffering too much. He waited for me to say goodbye and leave. He was a unique, loving man and a great father. There are no words to describe this pain. He helped me graduate and always said I would take care of him in old age. The disease took us by surprise.”

Alan was a well-known tattoo artist in the city where he lived, Praia Grande, on the coast of Sao Paulo, due to the realistic drawings he made, according to his wife. The couple had an eight-year-old daughter, who Viviane said was very attached to her father and devastated at the loss.

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