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"Tribute to sick and nurses in these times of coronavirus" by Juan Legaz Palomares

May 14 from 2020 - 11: 39

Opinion and encouragement article by Juan Legaz Palomares

"A kiss of encouragement to patients with the coronavirus". I fell into a deep sleep without knowing what my awakening would be like. I lost track of time without being able to find relief from the disastrous situation suffered by many human beings on our planet (now especially those with the coronavirus). In my dream, the image of a child began to appear, busily looking for a loving and sweet kiss that his dear mother had stamped on his cheek. Desperately he walked streets, squares of towns and cities around the world, trying to find his missing kiss.

The boy, disoriented, began to wander through all the peoples of the Earth, trying to find the kiss of love that had been lost. He persisted with enthusiasm in the search for that great treasure that had flown and that did not know the place where it could have been located.

The light of a bright star illuminated him and was guiding him through the most remote, strange, unknown, ignored, forgotten and even despised corners. At first he stumbled upon a ragged and starving beggar. Then, after continuing to walk and guided by the magical light of the star, they appeared: marginalized, evicted, the homeless, hungry, those who slept on the street covered by cardboard or by a threadbare blanket, those lost by drugs or alcohol , the victims of violence. Orphaned children, barefoot, starving, without family, without health care and without school, battered women and an endless number of misfortunes of all kinds and fur.

People passed quickly, absorbed by worldly worries, selfishness or the festive revelry, without noticing for a moment thinking about relieving some of those people who suffered from this drama, that anguish that
Possibly he would have remedied his misfortune with a kind greeting, or just by perceiving a small attention, a smile or a pleasant word.

Faced with this Dantesque spectacle, a small door of hope opened. Here is the surprise of this humble and sweet child. His will and insistence were rewarded. Happiness lit her heart and her face shone brighter than the sun itself, because a spectacular glow appeared in the sky that showed an enormous image in which it was stated that her lost kiss was alive in the hearts of all those outcasts she had found in his long journey in which he had visited and comforted. In those who were despised by their own
siblings and also those infected by the coronavirus.

I woke up. This longed for lost kiss the boy found in all those people who, for one reason or another, lived abandoned and forgotten by a good part of the rest of humanity. His joy is unspeakable. If you have not guessed it, the child who was looking for the lost kiss was the Child Jesus, and the kiss of Love was from his Mother, the Virgin Mary.

Health professionals

As a professional who has been in Nursing, I cannot resist making a brief comment on this worthy profession. A few days ago, International Nursing Day was celebrated, and with it I want to pay a well-deserved tribute to these health professionals who, with their selfless dedication, have demonstrated and demonstrate a vocation of love and service to others worthy of all praise.

Its silent and brave action is so good that it exceeds the limits of any human work and, I would dare to include it within heroicity. It is outside all ideologies and all religions. Therefore, it would be applicable to that phrase that Mother Teresa of Calcutta said to a young novice when she witnessed the scene of assistance to a sore, smelly, sore, dying and famished sick: "Love him until it hurts, and if it hurts is a good sign. ” And these professionals also have perfectly assimilated what Aristotle said to try to see others happy: "True happiness consists in doing good".

As the pioneer of Nursing was Florence Nightingale, I consider it necessary to make a brief summary of her professional career: Florence Nightingale, (Florence Grand Duchy of Tuscany, May 12, 1820. London August 13, 1910), was a British Nurse, writer and statistician , considered the forerunner of modern professional Nursing and creator of the first conceptual nursing model. From a young age he stood out
in mathematics, and completed his studies and applied his knowledge of statistics to epidemiology and health statistics. She was the first woman to be admitted to the British Royal Statistical Society, and an honorary member of the Americam Statistical Association.

It laid the foundations for the professionalization of nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of its nursing school at Saint Thomas Hospital in London, now an integral part of King's College London and the NHS It was the first lay school of nursing in the world .

His work was the source of inspiration for Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross and author of the humanitarian proposals adopted by the Geneva Convention.

Of Anglican faith, she believed that God had inspired her to be a Nurse. She achieved world fame for her pioneering nursing work assisting the wounded during the Crimean War. From that moment on she was known as "the lady with the lamp", for her habit of making night rounds with a lamp to attend to her patients.

In 1883, Queen Victoria awarded her the Royal Red Cross, and in 1907 she became the first woman to receive the Order of Merit from the United Kingdom. In 1908, she was awarded the Keys to the City of London.

The Nightingale Oath, taken by nurses upon graduation, was created in her honor in 1893. International Nursing Day is celebrated on her birthday (May 12).

Perhaps these magnificent professionals have been soaked to the core of their love and vocation towards their neighbor. At the cost of even abandoning his own family for weeks to avoid contagion from the invisible and traitorous Covid-19.

But they have also learned and internalized to make others happy, what Sophocles said: "The most beautiful human work is to be useful to others." They have demonstrated it and they demonstrate it with practice and not with
preaching.

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