2023-06-10 12:24:40
Pope Francis improves after his operation last Wednesday due to an abdominal hernia, but he has been advised against making efforts and therefore publicly celebrating the Angelus prayer tomorrow, the doctor who operated on him said today the Gemelli hospital in Rome, Sergio Alfieri.
“In the last days all intravenous treatment has been discontinued and is fed with a semi-liquid diet. He is apyretic (no fever) and hemodynamically stable. Her blood work and postoperative chest X-ray are good.”, Alfieri explained at a press conference at the hospital.
However, given the need to allow the mesh implanted for abdominal muscle repair to heal optimally, physicians they have advised him not to exert himself 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 colon operation.
“On the advice of the medical staff and the personal health assistant, and as deduced from the normal postoperative recovery times in operations of this type, Tomorrow the Pope will pray the Angelus prayer in privateuniting 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 nor has he suffered a heart attack”, Alfieri specified when asked by journalists during a press conference at the hospital.
From a cardiorespiratory point of view, the pope is fine.added the doctor, head of surgery at the Gemelli hospital.
Regarding how many days he will have to be hospitalized, Alfieri reported that at least for the next week. “It is a prudent decision to facilitate recovery, but everything is going well,” he said.
“To ensure that he returns to Santa Marta (his residence) in the best conditionswe would like you to stay 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 decided.” explained.
Alfieri pointed out that “if you don’t pay attention to healing, tears in the mesh will have to be taken back to the operating room. If, on the contrary, a careful convalescence is observed, she will not have any discomfort “and he clarified that the other time during hospitalization she prayed the angelus,” but after seven days and he did not have to rest the abdominal wall.”
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 He did it because he planned to go on a trip in August, the doctor explained.
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