Pope Francis He remained in a stable state and did not need any mechanical ventilation Sunday, the Vatican said. It was a sign that had surpassed the possible complications of a respiratory crisis on Friday, and its respiratory function in general improved as it recovered from double pneumonia.
The 88 -year -old pope continued to receive high -flow supplementary oxygen after Friday’s cough episode, which caused fears of a new pulmonary infection. The doctors of their Sunday update said that Francis remained stable, but referred to the complexity of his general condition and maintained his prognosis for protection, which means he was not safe.
Francis, who has been in the hospital since February 14, rested, prayed to his private chapel and participated in Mass for the rest of the day after paying a visit to the morning of the Secretary of State of the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and his Chief of Staff, Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra. The contents of his conversations were not known, but even in the Vatican, Francis meets at least weekly with them.
He again jumped his weekly noon blessing to avoid even a brief public appearance of the hospital. Instead, the Vatican distributed a message written by the Pope of the Gemelli Hospital, thanking his doctors for his care and wishes for his prayers and prayed again for peace in Ukraine and other places.
« From there, the war seems even more absurd, » Francis told the message, which he wrote in recent days. Francis said he lived his hospitalization as a deep solidarity experience with sick people and suffering everywhere.
« I feel in my heart the » blessing « hiding within fragility, because it is precisely at these times that we learn even more to trust the Lord, » Francis told the text. « At the same time, I thank God for giving me the opportunity to share the body and spirit for the state of so many sick and patents. »
Signs point to a recovery
Many signs indicated that it improved, especially after a respiratory crisis on Friday afternoon, which caused vomiting during a cough adjustment and increasing the possibility of new infection. The doctors aspired to the vomit and put it in non -invasive mechanical ventilation, a mask that pumps oxygen in the lungs.
He used ventilation on Saturday, alternating with only supplementary oxygen and on Sunday he no longer needed.
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Doctors also reported that he had no fever or increased white blood cells, which would have indicated that his body was fighting a new infection. The doctors had said that they needed 24 to 48 hours after the Friday cough episode to determine if there was a negative impact on Francis’s global condition. The passage of time and the positive reports on Sunday suggested that he had successfully surpassed the episode.
The pope, who was part of a lung eliminated as a young man, has a lung disease and was admitted to Gemelli on February 14 after a bronchitis attack worsens and became a complex pneumonia on both lungs.
The sentences continued to pour
Francis’s hospitalization has arrived when the Vatican is marking his saint year, attracting pilgrims to Rome from all over. Many have added a pilgrimage destination to their itineraries so that they can pray by Francis to Gemelli Hospital, which is 20 minutes drive from the Vatican, longer in rush hour or by public transport.
The Rev. Riccardo Fumagalli had accompanied a group of young people from Milan in Rome for the Jubilee and would have attended the prayer Angelus de Francis on Sunday in Plaça de Sant Pere if he had given it as usual. Instead, they went to Gemelli.
« We found it good to come here to express our proximity, especially from these teenagers, to be close to the Holy Father to pray for him, to pray for this moment of illness, » he said.
The patient against cancer, Antonino Cacace, also arrived on Sunday in Gemelli de Milan for his own treatment, saying that he must submit to surgery in the coming days and that he had the prayers of Francis.
« I’m happy that the pope gives me help, » he said. « I am on the ninth (flat) and is on 10 (floor). I hope to meet and see him, » he said.
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