Luigi is the protagonist of this series from RAI Fiction and Wildside. He's forty years old with a wife, a little girl, and another child on the way, when he suddenly finds himself having to spend a lot of time in the oncology unit of a hospital. Although La linea Verticale (the vertical line) is a work of fiction, it's based on a real story, and we are able to see, through Luigi's eyes, what daily life in an Italian hospital is like.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Peppe comes out of the operating room where all seems to have gone well. Luigi has a fever and the doctors are discussing the possible causes and what to do about it. Meanwhile Luigi feels he has to try to get out of bed, to prove to his body that he can.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Amed is worried that the replacement chaplain will come and start talking, and never stop. He'll "press play" and tell stories ad nauseam. But on the good side, Luigi's fever is going down, even though he doesn't feel great.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Elena tries to keep Luigi from getting too depressed about his situation. He then gets a taste of what his roommates had been telling him about the friar.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Father Costa just wants to be left alone and chases Friar Marcello away. Luigi finally has his catheter and drainage removed.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Luigi spends the night tossing and turning. In the morning, a nurse comes to get him for the CT scan, but then he has to wait and wait.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
When Luigi finds out he could actually have had some water before his CT scan, he is totally demoralized. He talks about the different kinds of patients to be found in any hospital.
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