A special diploma exam. Unique. First postponed, because Veronica Vacca, 29, from Capoterra, has been hospitalized for over a month at the Policlinico di Monserrato for a high-risk pregnancy. Then a supplementary session was set up for her: on Tuesday she took the Italian exam, the next day the business economics exam. And on Thursday, along with the results of the written exams (19 in the essay, 20 for the technical exam), Samuele also arrived. "Time to recover a little - she says beaming on the phone - and then I'll take the oral exam". Appointment tomorrow morning, again at the Policlinico, where the general manager Vincenzo Serra has made his office available: "Everyone helped us, the teachers, the doctors, the health management: I have so many people I have to thank, especially my husband Daniele who supported me and pushed me not to give up my studies despite having been forced to spend the last month of pregnancy in a hospital bed".
The story
Veronica's is the story with a happy ending of a girl who has always sacrificed herself and who wanted to pursue the goal of a diploma at any cost. "I have been working for two years as a textile worker in an industrial tailoring shop, before that my husband and I had lived in England for seven years. We worked in a pharmacy, we worked hard to learn English, and those years of study and work made me decide, once I returned to Sardinia, in 2023, to resume the studies that I had interrupted in the fourth year of accounting. At the Atzeni Institute I attended evening classes, I got along very well, both with the teachers and with my classmates. This year I got pregnant but I continued to work and study, as long as I could".
The birth
A month ago, the doctors kept her at the Policlinico: a risky pregnancy for her and the unborn child. "I didn't give up, I wanted this diploma." She couldn't imagine that her first child would arrive between the written and oral exams: "I'm giving birth urgently, Samuele was born seven months old, he's fine but I haven't been able to see him yet. They put him in the incubator. And I also have to get myself together for the oral exams. I never would have imagined such a particular exam, alone, in a nice office, not with my classmates. It wasn't easy." The first to congratulate her on the arrival of Samuele were, after her family, her classmates from class 5 A, the principal of “Atzeni” Maurizio Pibiri, the teachers who followed her during the year Daniela Perra, Federico Bacco, Stefano Salaris, Claudia Pinna, Valeria Pinna and Riccardo Pinna and those of the examination commission chaired by Carla Anedda. "I hope - Veronica Vacca concludes - that my story can be a message for many boys and girls: even in the most complicated moments, you must not stop believing in yourself: my husband and I will certainly tell it to our son when he grows up".
