The Vatican continued his Holy Year celebrations without the Pope on Saturday as Pope Francis fought pneumonia and the complicated respiratory infections that doctors would continue to be moved and kept hospitalized for at least another week.
Francis was asleep overnight, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a brief early update on Saturday.
However, doctors warn that the main threat facing 88-year-old Francis is the onset of sepsis, a serious blood infection that can occur as a complication of pneumonia. As of Friday, there was no evidence of sepsis and Francis had been dealing with various drugs he was taking, the Pope's medical team said in its first detailed update on the Pope's condition.
“He's not dangerous,” said his private doctor, Dr. Luigi Carbon. “So, like all vulnerable patients, I say they are always on a golden scale. In other words, they need little to be imbalance.”
Francis, who suffers from chronic lung disease, was admitted to Gemeri Hospital on February 14th after a week-long bronchitis match worsened.
The doctor first diagnosed the development of complex viral, bacterial, and fungal respiratory infections, followed by pneumonia in both lungs. They prescribed a “absolute rest” and a combination of cortisone and antibiotics, and supplemental oxygen when he needed it.
Carbone, who, together with Francis' personal nurse Masimiliano Strapetti, organized his care at the Vatican, said that he would remain in the Vatican even after he was ill, “because of institutional and private commitments.” “I admitted to the claim.” He was cared for by a cardiologist and infectious disease specialist, in addition to his personal medical team, prior to hospitalization.
Dr. Sergio Alfieri, head of medicine and surgery at Gemeri Hospital in Rome, said the biggest threat facing Francis is that some of the bacteria currently in the respiratory system enter the bloodstream and cause sepsis. I stated. Sepsis can lead to organ shortages and death.
“His respiratory problems and his age sepsis will be really difficult to come out,” Alfieri said at a press conference in Gemeri on Friday. “The British say 'Knock on the tree', we say 'Touch iron'. He slammed the microphone and said. “But this is a real risk in these cases: these bacteria pass through the bloodstream.”
“I know he's in danger,” Alfieri added. “And he told us to tell us that.”
Meanwhile, the butlers were gathering at the Vatican for a special Jubilee weekend. Francis fell ill at the beginning of all Catholic quarter-century celebrations, the beginning of the Vatican Holy Year. This weekend, Francis was believed to have celebrated the deacon, the church ministry that preceded ordination into the priesthood.
Instead, the organizers of the Holy Year will celebrate Sunday's Mass, the Vatican said. And for the second weekend in a row, Francis was expected to skip the traditional Sunday noon blessing.
“He knows he's here, even though he's not (physically)” says a butler from Ponce, Puerto Rico, who was in the Vatican on Saturday to celebrate Jubilee. said Luis Arnardo Lopez Killingdongo. “He is recovering, but he is in our hearts and accompany us as our prayers and he goes with us.”
Beyond that, doctors say Francis will take time to recover, and he still has to live with chronic respiratory problems at the Vatican.
“He has to get through this infection and we all want him to get through it,” Alfieri said. “But in reality, all the doors are open.”
