Pope Francis is so close to DE@TH during his weeks-long hospital stay.
Sergio Alfieri, a senior doctor at Gemelli Hospital, said the 88-year-old pope’s most terrible moment was February 28, when he was hospitalized for a respiratory crisis and almost vomited.
“He probably won’t do that,” the doctor told the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera.
“We have to choose whether we will stop there, let him go, or keep moving forward and push it with all possible medications and treatments, taking the highest risk of damaging his other organs.”
He added: “In the end, we went this path.”
The pope was taken to Gemelli Hospital on February 14 and developed rapidly from bronchitis, given that he had removed one of his lungs when he was young.
The Vatican provides very detailed daily updates during his 38-day battle.
The doctor said it was the pope’s personal nurse, Massimiliano Strappetti, who urged the medical team to continue receiving treatment after the vomiting incident.
He said of the nurse’s instructions: “Try everything and we won’t give up.” That’s what we all think. No one gave up. ”
“For a few days, we risked damaging his kidneys and bone marrow, but we kept moving forward – his body responded less to medications and less infections in his lungs,” Alfieri added.
Francis was in a state of condition, and the blessed man was greeted Sunday with a fragile-looking pope appearing on the hospital balcony before finally returning to the Vatican after five weeks of hospitalization.
“I saw him leaving the room on the 10th floor of Gemelli, dressed in white,” Alfieri said of the pope’s first public appearance in a few weeks.
“It’s the emotion of seeing a man become a pope again.”
Since leaving the hospital, Francis has been ordered to rest for another two months in order to be fully cured.
It is not clear how much will be seen in public in the next few weeks.
