Waking up From a Coma During an Ongoing Pandemic

Ela Vasilescu
9 min readMar 4, 2021
Photo Credits Dorin Vasilescu

The story of an Italian executive-chef who became an inspiration after waking up paralyzed from a three-month-long coma

“Why can’t you work in your condition?” I ask the man in the wheelchair, sitting across the table from me.

“I am an executive chef. I need to oversee everything and everyone. I need to solve any issue that may arise in the kitchen. An…

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