I saw her in the intensive care unit, haughty, elegant, dressed in the impeccable uniform of a hospital cleaning supervisor. Always cordial. Good night Good Night.
One day, Conceição said that she had a request for me: that I sign a copy of my book that she had acquired.
With pleasure!
Who is the worst doctor in the world?
Who knows if it’s me?
I really enjoy reading your stories, you’re from Cansanção, aren’t you? I’m also from Bahia, from Santaluz.
Our cities are neighbors, deep sertão, sisal producing region. The children of Santaluz were featured on Globo Repórter, which dealt with child labor, in 1997. The boy Jeremias, in a hand-sewn suit, pulled a donkey that carried sisal in its packs. The reporter asked him about what the boy expected from the future, whoever saw it will remember: an elegant future.
Conceição came from this place, working since she was a little girl in the rural area of the brabas caatingas. Migrant in this big city, always working, in addition to caring for the family, her two daughters, her books.
At the University Hospital, she was hired as an outsourced employee for the hygiene and cleaning service, then she became a supervisor. In the many night shifts, Conceição seemed a little tired, even so she kept her eyes attentive to the service and the handouts, triple or quadruple journey, with more demands for the contingencies of the pandemic.
In this context, Conceição coordinated a team that was as essential as it was unfeasible; cleaning professionals were among those who suffered the most both inside and outside hospital services since the Covid-19 emergency.
As an encouragement, a few days ago the social network brought the image of Conceição dressed in graduation clothes, holding her degree from the higher nursing course, the woman reached the words that her father planted so many years ago: her eldest daughter one day was going to graduate.
Conceição graduated, elegant in her graduation gown, in a future she elegantly built.
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