Nevertheless, his parents wanted him to give up on his chance to go to the University and stay home, because he was the older brother in a rather poor family, and was supposed to take care of his younger siblings.
As a child, today's Professor was obviously very gifted with maths. And the old lady, who was with her husband in the hospital, used to be his Maths teacher in school…Īnd as if this is not enough, here’s one more key matter. The brother is a renowned University Professor in Bucharest (Mathematics). The physiotherapist has a sister, also working in the same (huge) hospital. Then they started chatting about families, Romania, and their home towns… and that’s where the magic happened (please bear with me, as the chain of connections is rather long). When it turned out that this was difficult to be found, she generously offered to host the lady at her apartment, for the few days needed until her husband recovered enough to make the travel back home. She was very helpful already in clarifying the medical condition (which was already improving - btw, the Italian doctors and staff were all brilliant) and in checking for potential options for the lady to be hosted somewhere nearby. However, there already was somebody who got voluntarily involved - an employee of the hospital, who's also Romanian and worked there as a physiotherapist. I found her at the hospital, did some translation, got her a phone with a local GSM card and generally tried to make myself somewhat useful. Which of course I did - but that's the decent thing to do, and the story belongs to the old lady. So my cousin asked me if it's possible to go to the hospital and provide some help. She managed though to get in touch with her daughter to tell her what happened and the name of the hospital. The mom's phone was not working, she speaks no Italian or English, and was alone in the hospital with her husband in a critical situation.
He's a doctor and one of his colleagues had a family emergency - her parents (both elderly people) were visiting Milan with a group of tourists, when out of the blue, her father had a stroke.
The following fantastic yet absolutely true story makes a powerful case for this theory… and for the lasting impact of ‘doing the right thing’.Ī few weeks ago, I received a call from a relative of mine in Romania. Don’t know if you’re familiar with the concept of six degrees of separation – basically it states that any two people in this world are at a maximum of six social connections away from each other.
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