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L’infermiera del respiro
A story of care, presence, and listening.
Alessandra Baruzzi · Emilia Sciandivasci
The story
There is a gesture that occurs every day, silent, almost invisible. The gesture of those who remain alongside. Of those who listen without haste. Of those who breathe together with another person when words are no longer needed.
“The Nurse of Breath” is the story of this gesture. Narrated by those who perform it and those who receive it. Written by those who chose not to look away.
This is not a book about illness. It is a book about presence. About the human value hidden in daily acts of care. About the transformation that happens when someone decides to be there, simply, until the very end.
“Because care is not just therapy.
It is presence. It is life.
And everything begins with a breath.”
From the back cover
Presence
The value of being there, simply. Beyond technique, beyond the role.
Listening
Stories that are born when someone truly stops to listen.
Transformation
What changes in the caregiver and in the one being cared for. A boundary that dissolves.
The authors
Two voices,
one story
Emilia and Alessandra listened to, gathered, and wrote this story together. With patience, with respect, remaining faithful to the voice of those who lived it.
Emilia Sciandivasci
nursing director
Alessandra Baruzzi
breath nurse
Audio experience
Beyond the page
This book is accompanied by an audio experience. Not just a simple audiobook. A voice that reads, pauses that breathe, a different way of entering the story.
Inside the book, you will find a QR code that will take you directly to the audio content.
Inside the story
What if care were not just technique?
And distance no longer an obstacle?
Two nurses, colleagues and friends, open their “suitcase of breaths” and encounter fragile and extraordinary stories.
A human journey before it is a healthcare one, where telemedicine brings close even what is distant.
Because it is breath that binds us.
And so, let us breathe together.
Stories do not end when they are read.
They continue in those who welcome them.