Mayabeque, Cuba: In Melena del Sur, few of those who know Nursing graduate Sandra Luisa Anovega Vinent know that she first graduated as a Middle Technician in Mineral Geology.
The objective of her decision was to return to this town where some paternal grandparents, unable to control a rebellious adolescent, had chosen to send her to Santiago de Cuba with the intention that her mother would be able to correct what seemed lost.
But it was really the noble profession that she performs today that, according to her own words, saved her from it.
The passion that nests in the soul of this nurse, a member of the famous Ernesto Che Guevara Tenth Cuban Medical Brigade, protagonist of the colossal battle waged against Covid-19 in the largest field hospital, created in the Poliedro de Caracas, triples the weight and volume of his petite and nervous body.
She is the expression of the courage displayed by Cuban health personnel, especially women, even outside our borders in the confrontation with the most terrible pandemic that modern history has known.
The white uniform is always neat and ironed, asks Mrs. Sandra, a disciple of the famous English nurse Florence de Nigtingale, with her proverbial vocation for service, I would add.
“In the midst of the circumstances we live in, it was necessary to be strong, to grow bigger without being able to come, overcoming sensitive losses and giving up the most important moments for our children and the family in general.”
With the wounds still unhealed from a hard period away from the Homeland, the experienced nurse Sandra Luisa Anovega Vinent, who in the distance and while fulfilling her internationalist duty had to suffer the loss of her life partner for 25 years, will shortly return to Chávez’s homeland, even when I infer the answer, I ask her? __ When are gone, how would you like to be remembered? _ and she answers me without hesitation:
?I would like them to remember me just as I am?, that people say: ?She was a little crazy but you had to count on her, that those who decide to study nursing do so out of love, knowing that for a nurse there is no December 31, nor is there date set if compliance with the patient is about always keeping in mind that Sandra’s joy relieved the pain of many people when other resources were lacking and that if she were born again she would be a NURSE again.
