afraid I do not see a doctor. I was scared I was the picture of women for silence at the entrance of the hospital. Each time I asked who it was, my Mom replied, "is Rosa Lopez, a young man."
Rosa Lopez was a lady who spent 60 and worked as a nurse for so many years that no one could imagine having a life outside this place. And when I say "place" I do not mean the clinic, but the stall where he was engaged to a boil in a giant pot, glass syringes and needles of all sizes.
For me, Rosa Lopez was synonymous with injections.
wore a cap on his head and white loafers, left over many kilos and he always complained of leg pain. Never heard saying a kind word to anyone Today I feel that she enjoyed the face of terror that we put the kids every time we approached.
Once I have 8 or 9 years old, traveled to Santa Fe because one of my uncles was admitted to the Hospital Cullen. The place was in my eyes, immense. We passed offices, hallways, stairs up to the ward, and great was my surprise when, next door was a photograph of Rosa Lopez!.
Since that day I began to regard her with respect. The first thing I did upon returning was to tell my friends that Rosa was known. Who knew her at the hospital in Santa Fe, and who knows where else. We all wanted to hanging from his fame. Started visiting the hospital with any excuse, just to talk. "Rosa, look at me hands, I hit the handlebar of the bike," "Rosa, I swallowed my gum." Competed to see who spent more time with her. One day to accompany her home. He lived with a disabled child and would not let anyone, but we engineered to reach the dining room.
had a dark wooden table and a cupboard full of porcelain figures, but the picture that launched to stardom was not anywhere. A wall hung oval table where two people saw her wedding day. "Parents should be" we told each others, not afraid to ask. The differences between the lady and Rosa Lopez for silence were many.
Later, Rosa retired and died. The child was disabled by a sister and I never remembered it.
never until two or three days I saw it on television. It was a report on the status of hospitals in Argentina. The announcer said: "Even the pictures are old, but this picture look the year 1950."
And then, I swear, two or three days, I realized that Rosa Lopez was never famous.
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