Rome (EFE).- Pope Francis’ postoperative period is normal, he underwent respiratory physiotherapy today and prayed the Angelus in the chapel of the private apartment on the tenth floor of the Gemelli hospital in Rome, where he has been admitted since last Wednesday for a operation for an abdominal hernia, the Vatican reported.
The doctors had advised against the pontiff from celebrating the Angelus publicly from the hospital to avoid efforts that put at risk the healing of the mesh that has been applied to the abdominal wall after the operation in which some adhesions were removed that could have caused a bowel obstruction.
In today’s last medical report it was reported that the pope continues to be without fever and is hemodynamically stable, “he underwent respiratory physiotherapy and continued to move.”
A normal postoperative
“During the morning he followed the Holy Mass live on television and received the Eucharist. Then he went to the chapel of the private apartment, where he gathered in prayer for the Angelus prayer, ”the Vatican said in a statement.
Then, the note added, “he had lunch with those who assist him in these days of internment in the private apartment, doctors, assistants, nurses and personnel from the Gendarmerie (Vatican police).”
The surgeon who operated on him last Wednesday and also in July 2021 in the colon, Sergio Alfieri, in a press conference this Saturday explained that “in recent days all intravenous treatment has been suspended and he is fed a semi-liquid diet . His blood work and postoperative chest X-ray are good.”
Alfieri also stressed that “the pope has not had any kind of heart problem or suffered a heart attack,” Alfieri said when asked by 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 hospital, and explained that two months ago he had a small problem (pneumonia) “as any 86-year-old person can have but he doesn’t have any practically treatment, the only problem in the knee, but he has not and has not had any problem ”.
He also explained that the pope is not suffering a lot of pain and for this reason “he undergoes normal analgesic therapy 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” but that “it is not a soft analgesic, nothing special, to allow you to breathe well”.
The medical team has advised him to remain hospitalized for his full recovery for at least the next week and Francisco accepted, according to Alfieri.