Although the Pope Francisco did not look out of the tenth-floor windows of the Gemelli Polyclinic for the Marian prayer of Angelusmany people gathered at the hospital doors to pray and ask for his full recovery.
It was the Angelus prayed spiritually next to the Pope Franciscohospitalized since last Wednesday June 7 at the Gemelli Polyclinic of Rome after being operated on laparotomy and plastic surgery of the abdominal wall with a prosthesis.
The doctors had advised against the Pontiff celebrating the Angelus publicly from the hospital to avoid efforts that would jeopardize the healing of the mesh that was applied to the abdominal wall after the operation in which some adhesions were removed that could have caused a intestinal obstruction.
The demonstration of affection of the faithful to Pope Francis
This Sunday, when the clock struck 12 noon, several faithful gathered at the doors of the hospital under the windows of the tenth floor where the Pope regularly continues his postoperative period.
A prayer recited by don michele jtogether with several young people and many women from the “Casa de Maria” community, with them people who visit the hospitalized but also patients who looked through the windows of the floors below the tenth. “We are the ones who carry the banner “The Immaculate Conception will win” every Sunday in San Pedro Square. – Don Michele explained – and this Sunday we have also decided to be next to Pope Francis”.
“It is a sign of fidelity, gratitude and also a response when he asks us to pray for him. It is a gesture – she continued – of true affection “.
all week hospitalized
It is estimated that Francisco, 86, will remain hospitalized all week because of the non-routine abdominal hernia surgery that the medical team of surgeon Sergio Alfieri performed on him.
“He is recovering regularly, he is in good spirits, but -he continued- it is necessary that he avoid all kinds of efforts to achieve an adequate and speedy recovery,” the doctor told reporters yesterday. Alfieriwho operated on him last Wednesday and also in July 2021 of the colon, when updating the state of health of the Pope.
He also specified 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.”
He further explained that the Pope Francisco He is not suffering a lot of pain and that is why “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 in this case he explained “it is a soft analgesic, nothing special, so that it allows you a good breath”.
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The medical team advised him to remain hospitalized for his full recovery for at least the next week and Francisco accepted, according to Alfieri.
Last medical report
In the new medical report, the Holy See Press Office reported that the Dad The fourth night of hospitalization passed well and the postoperative period is normal.
The Vatican statement also specified that he continues without fever and is hemodynamically stable: “he underwent respiratory physiotherapy and continued to move”, while he prayed the Angelus in private in the chapel of the papal apartment on the tenth floor of the hospital.
Then, the note added, “he had lunch with those who assist him in these days of hospitalization in the private department: doctors, assistants, nurses and personnel from the Vatican Gendarmerie corps.”
Source: Ambito
