Alone, but above all, isolated. Not even lifelong friends visit her anymore: the road to her home is in poor condition, full of huge potholes, speed bumps, and stretches of gravel. Driving is no longer possible. Those who have attempted it recently have suffered tire damage and other damage. In Tresnuraghes, in a rural outskirts of the town, in the Presettas district, an 84-year-old woman lives who no longer leaves her home due to the terrible condition of the road she must travel to reach the town.
Her name is Giuliana Carotti, originally from Genoa but has lived in Tresnuraghes for 34 years: "I'm just asking the municipality to help me make the road passable so that the people helping me can reach me. I'd also like to be able to leave the house by car. I'm isolated; not even an ambulance could reach me if I needed it. I've asked the administration several times to intervene, but they've always said that that area isn't under their jurisdiction. The social workers have given me the same answer. So who should I contact?"
Giuliana has been a widow for 11 years: "As long as my husband was alive, he took care of the road," she says. "Always at our expense, by the way. He cut the grass, laid gravel, and repaired potholes so he wouldn't have any problems with the car. Now that he's gone, I don't know what to do. Whoever helps me carry the groceries home has to park far away. Not even the hairdresser comes to my place anymore," she says, laughing, but not too much, "because she can't risk damaging the car. One day I even called the police, who kindly brought my groceries home."
But that's not all: "I recently had a sign put up indicating the existence of this hamlet, and I wrote the name myself," she explains. " If I were to get sick, I would die alone, abandoned. Even the hearse wouldn't be able to reach my home."
