His step is still unsteady, his jaw hurts. But otherwise Gianluca Deiana, 55, is alive and can tell his story. "I'm a miracle," he says. Last year, in February, he fell from a scaffolding from a height of seven meters. "That's why I say I'm a survivor, I don't even know how I recovered."

The step

"I was working as a bricklayer, on a construction site in Cagliari - he says - It was just before 1 p.m., I was alone and I remember that I skipped a small step, from the balcony to the platform to get the equipment and go away". Afterwards it was dark, "I don't remember anything except that around 1:45 p.m., after losing consciousness, I regained consciousness. I remained on the ground on the asphalt for 45 minutes. During that time, no one passed by on the street".

When he wakes up, the owner of the company and a colleague of his arrive. "My situation didn't seem serious to them, they didn't call an ambulance but they loaded me into the car and took me to the hospital at the Policlinico. I remember that I had shooting pains everywhere, I understood that I had a fracture".

Cerebral hemorrhages

His face swollen, he couldn't move, his wife Elisabetta Spano recalls. His conditions are critical: two frontal cerebral hemorrhages, lesions to both kneecaps, fracture of the fibula, of the malleolus and that of the wrist "which he won't be able to recover". From there the ordeal: three operations, physiotherapy. "I should also operate on the jaw but I'm waiting".

The epilogue

And in March Elisabetta Spano and Luca Deiana got married. "When I was there in the hospital, despite ten years of living with Luca, I was basically nobody," says Spano. "They didn't give me any news, I couldn't decide anything. So we decided we had to regularize everything."

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