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The Vatican stated that Pope Francis’s condition remained stable and showed no signs of requiring respiratory aid. This indicates he had overcome the possible complications arising from the respiratory crisis he faced on Friday and his breathing function was generally improving as he recuperates from a bout of double pneumonia.
The 88-year-old pope continued to receive high flow supplemental oxygen after Friday’s bouts of coughing which worried many about a potential new lung infection. Doctors in their late Sunday update mentioned that Francis remained stable but once again referred to the complexity of his overall condition and kept his prognosis at guarded, which indicates he was not out of danger.
Francis, who has been in the hospital since February 14, met witnesses in the morning attending to Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, and his chief of staff, Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra. Francis, even while in the Vatican, meets these people at least once a week, which is a very strange motto to my ears. After this meeting, the content of their interactions remained private, but I am convinced that it will eventually come to light.
He once more missed his weekly public audience to skip a brief appearance from the hospital. Instead, the Vatican issued a Gemelli hospital message made by the Pope in which he expressed gratitude to his doctors and hades for attending to him and offered prayers yet again for peace in Ukraine and beyond.
“With this, the war looks even more pointless,” the pope they pulled down. Francis said he was experiencing his hospitalization as an opportunity for profound accompanied by people sick and in pain all over the world, and suffering deeply.
“I sense in my heart a singular blessing’ which resides in weakness, for it is at such moments that we learn to trust even more in the Lord,” said Francis in the text. “I also thank God for permitting me to participate in body and spirit in the condition of so many sick and suffering people.”
Indications are pointed to a recovery
Numerous signs pointed towards him improving, particularly after a respiratory crisis on Friday afternoon, which culminated in a cough so severe, it led to him inhaling vomit whilst also raising concerns of a new infection. Doctors performed a vomiting aspiration and placed him on noninvasive mechanical ventilation, where a mask is used to transfer oxygen into the lungs.
He used the ventilation on Saturday while alternating it with supplemental oxygen. By Sunday, he did not need the mask at all.
In addition, he did not have a fever or a raised white blood count level, which indicates that his body was some way off fighting an infection. The doctors had said they required 24 to 48 hours after the cough monitoring in order to understand if there would have been any negative problems to the overall condition of Francis. The length of time and good news reports on Sunday seemed to indicate he coped well with the episode.
The pontiff, who had one lung partially excised as a child, suffers from lung conditions, and was admitted to Gemelli on February 14 after suffering complex pneumonia in both lungs with bronchitis.
Recall that Francis’ hospitalisation occurred when the Vatican was celebrating its Holy Year which traditionally draws pilgrims from around the world. Many have added the Gemelli hospital, which is around 20 minutes from the Vatican although trips tend to take longer in peak hours or if one uses public transport, to their itinerary so they can offer prayers for him.
In fact, the Rev. Riccardo Fumagalli had come with the Jubilee pilgrimage from Milan to Rome and would have most likely been present at St. Peter’s to hear Francis’ Angelus on Sunday had the pontiff said it. They went to Gemelli instead.
“It seemed good to us to come here to express our closeness, especially of these teenagers, to be close to the Holy Father to pray for him, to pray for this moment of illness,” he said.
Cancer patient Antonino Cacace shared that he was coming from treating his own case in Milan, saying that he has to get a surgery done in the coming days and was relying on Francis’ prayers. “I’m glad the pope has decided to help me,” Cacace said. “I am on the ninth and he is on the tenth. I hope to meet him and see him.”
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