“It gives me a strange joy that in room 678, right at this moment, someone is reading exactly the same book as me, probably on the same leatherette sofa, with the same uncertainty.” With these words, Sara Carbonero begins to share with her more than 3.5 million followers how she is seeing things from the hospital.
The journalist has not confirmed if she is accompanying someone or if she is the one who is admitted; But, with a text that she has shared through her Instagram account, she has managed to leave everyone full of emotion with her words, loaded with meaning. A text in which she reveals how she feels and felt inside the hospital, with her “codes”, her corners and her little secrets.
“In the hallways and in the cafeteria I come across many people who always make way in the elevator and greet smiling, as I do,” continues writing Sara Carbonero, who defines these gestures as the “codes” of the place; some unwritten rules “where we all know the need for love and affection in these endless days. Within these walls any gesture, any detail, any breath of fresh air is valued much more. Any good news.”
The journalist continues explaining what happens beyond the room, in the waiting rooms, visits and recreation for patients “so that people can kill time there.” However, she reveals that she has found something much more interesting to her: a music device. “They are all classical music, I choose one by Haydn because it reminds me of car trips as a child, and I end up playing for the entire floor.”
“Bouquets of flowers fill the rooms and bring spring to every gray corner,” he writes. “Through the window I see that the people on the street are wearing short sleeves and I sleep with two blankets. Sleeping is a saying,” he confesses, also revealing his sleepless night eating cookies, playing Candy Crush and reading.
One of the proverbs in his book catches your attention. “She says: ‘There goes the tongue where the tooth hurts.’ At first I admit that I don’t get it because I’m falling asleep, but I quickly get the message.”
It didn’t take long for the journalist’s emotional message to go viral, with many of her followers applauding her words and wanting to express how they themselves felt in such a delicate moment as being admitted and having a hospital become your entire world.
Her “comadre”, Isabel Jiménez, takes the opportunity to tell her that he loves her. “How can a human being connect with someone they don’t know and who is an ocean away through words? From my faith I embrace you, your words give me answers,” one of her followers tells her. “How beautiful you write but on the one hand I wish I had never written it. You are super special,” another writes.
Businessman Juanjo Velázquez Goya, proud, tells the journalist: “I am excited and excited that it is an initiative of my daughter Elena, an oncology nurse at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra (CUN); and that my mother’s books and music “Make the lives of others better. Thank you.”
