A life in the ICU: Little Fabio’s race against time as he awaited a transplant
An autoimmune disease crippled his lungs. Hooked up to a machine that oxygenated his blood for him, for 18 months the boy made the hospital his home and relearned to walk in the corridors of the intensive care unit
Little Fabio has spent most of his almost three years of life in hospitals. Now he only visits them, but for a long time, intensive care units (ICU) were his home. Above all, the Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona. There, at just 18 months old, he began a race against time to recover his lung function, lost due to a complex autoimmune disease. The illness disabled his lungs forever and led Fabio to an uncertain future: only a transplant could save him, but time and the context were against him.
