It was December 27th when Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, while speaking on a stage in Cortina, felt a strong pain in his chest . A few hours later he was in the operating room where he underwent a long operation to save his life . Then the coma, then the awakening, the face of his partner Tiziana, and now the story in a long interview given to Corriere della Sera.

" I felt three blows on my diaphragm, as if I were holding my breath ," explains Parsi. «As a diver you know that when you hear them you have to resurface, it's the last warning. I understood that something was serious. Once the conference was over, I asked for a doctor to be called. The ambulance arrived, we went to the hospital."

There are the first tests, from which nothing emerges. Then, however, the transfer to Belluno, where the head of Cardiology, Alessandro de Leo, understands that it is a dissection of the aorta . And informs him of the need for immediate life-saving intervention.

Two calls for the political scientist, one to his eldest daughter and the other to Tiziana Panella, La7 journalist and his partner for two years. Hence the abyss of the operation. «I remember the whole period in the coma – Parsi tells the Corriere –. A Styx, a muddy, black river, which was under my feet, like Ulysses and Achilles . I remember seeing the roots of the trees from below, as if I were in a crevasse. And every now and then, distant voices." «At a certain point – he continues – I asked myself if I was dead . I thought: I can't do it, maybe I just need to let go and everything will pass. Death can't be much worse."

But then the thought of his daughters and Tiziana . «I spoke to my mother and father, who are no longer here: “Give me a hand, it's not the time to join you”». So « I opened my eyes. And I saw Tiziana who was there with me ."
“I think it was Hades. The river in which the dead souls are – adds Parsi –. I saw no light, no hope other than fighting to live. Maybe when you die the feeling is that of a hug . We experience death as frightening, I have never had much sympathy for it, I have no expectations about what will come next. But the thing that surprised me was that I wasn't afraid."

(Unioneonline/vl)

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