Pope Francis will not celebrate the Angelus and will be hospitalized for at least the whole of next week

He Pope Francisco He is improving after his operation last Wednesday for an abdominal hernia, but he has been discouraged from making efforts and therefore will not celebrate the Angelus publicly for the first time in his pontificate while the doctors have indicated that he should be at least the whole of next week entered in the Gemelli hospital in Rome.

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The doctor who operated on him both last Wednesday and in July 2021 in an intervention in the colon, Sergio Alfieriappeared today before the media to give full details about the health of the pope and his postoperative period.

“In recent days, all intravenous treatment has been suspended and he is fed a semi-liquid diet. He is apyretic (no fever) and hemodynamically stable. Your blood tests and postoperative chest x-ray are good”explained Alfieri at a press conference at the hospital.

However, given the need to allow the implanted mesh For the repair of the muscles of the abdomen to heal optimally, the doctors have advised him not to make efforts and not to appear in public to celebrate the Angelus from the hospital, as he already did in his previous hospitalization in July 2021 after the operation of the colon.

It will be like this the first time in your pontificate the pope does not celebrate the angelus prayer publicly, since even during the pandemic He celebrated it in the pontifical palace and it was broadcast.

“On the advice of the medical staff and the personal health assistant, and as can be deduced from the normal postoperative recovery times in operations of this type, tomorrow the Pope will pray the Angelus prayer in private, uniting himself spiritually, with affection and gratitude, to the faithful who will want to accompany him, wherever they are”the Vatican explained in a statement.

Alfieri also stressed that “The Pope has not had any kind of heart problem or suffered a heart attack,” accurate Alfieri to questions from journalists during a press conference at the hospital.

From a cardiorespiratory point of view, the pope is fine, added the doctor, who is in charge of surgery at the gemelli hospitaland explained that two months ago he had a small problem (pneumonia) “As can any 86-year-old person but practically has no type of treatment, the only problem is the knee, but he has not and has not had any problem.”

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About how many days you will have to be admitted, Alfieri reported that at least for the next week. “It is a prudent decision to facilitate recovery, but everything is going well”he assured.

“To make sure you come back Santa Marta (your residence) in the best conditions, we would like you to remain hospitalized for a week. Full recovery is three months for everyone. It is very important that you return to work physically strong. But we can suggest it to him, because he is the one who decides. We gave him a medical suggestion for Sunday, and he will decide”, he explained.

Alfieri pointed out that “If you don’t pay attention to healing and tears in the mesh, you’ll have to go back to the operating room. If, on the contrary, a careful convalescence is observed, you won’t have any trouble” and qualified that the other time during the hospitalization prayed and angelus, “but after seven days and he did not have to rest the abdominal wall”.

“But I tell you, everything is going well, everything is very good to date. We don’t stop the pope from doing things, the pope decides for himself. He will be able to walk during his recovery, but he is not a person who returns to the office in public to work three days after surgery, he is a head of state.”he pointed.

Although Alfieri assured that if the Pope is 86 years old, “He has a head like a 60-year-old man”when he decided to have surgery the day after the CT scan, he did it because he expected it to be the best date because he would be traveling in August, explained the doctor.

He also explained that the pope is not suffering a lot of pain and that is why “submits to a analgesic therapy normal to make sure he can breathe well, because when you have surgery on your abdomen, you try to breathe more shallowly to feel less pain” pI was not “It is a soft analgesic, nothing special, so that it allows you a good breathing”.

Source: Elcomercio

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