Mr. Dante D. remembers the thirst and the noise.

“So: first it was a quick decision. As I told you, they told me the diagnosis was that, the infiltration to the lungs was there, the saturation was very low, “”we assist you with ventilation, so we intuit you””.
And then, at that moment, there is the artificial coma, you are curarized and then I was out for… 4 nights, 5 days.
Voilà. Then on the fifth day they woke me up, and they left me for two more days in a semi-conscious state, of awakening, etc., calm, just in intensive care. At that time my memories are bom first impressions a bit ‘noise .
People who went back and forth at all hours, they were worried, regularly coming to measure my parameters, etc. .
And the most unpleasant thing I had was that sensation of mouth dryness, tongue completely dehydrated, dry, probably due to the fact of oxygenation.
With so much oxygen that tended to dry out the whole oral cavity.

I: And he told me that he was hearing noises. Can you tell me a little bit more about that?

E: Well, the noises are there quietly in sleep and it was clearly a moment of strong occupation of the intensive care, as it was in the period of acute spread of the disease, so nurses come and go, move materials, move beds, move trolleys, move here and move there and then … there is a continuous background noise.”