Pope Francis woke up and continued his therapies on Monday after a quiet night, the tenth day of his hospitalization for a complex lung infection that has caused the early stages of renal insufficiency, said the Vatican.
“The night had a good time, Pope slept and rest,” he said. The 88 -year -old Pope continues to feed and is not receiving artificial or liquid nutrition, said the Vatican, adding that he was in a good mood.
A medical bulletin was expected later in the day. Also later on Monday, Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, had to direct a night prayer of the Rosary in the Plaza de San Pedro.
On Sunday night, doctors reported that blood tests showed “early and mild renal failure” that, however, was under control. They said that Francis remained in critical condition but had not experienced other respiratory crises since Saturday.
Francis, which has pneumonia in both lungs, was receiving high supplementary oxygen flows and, on Sunday, was alert, receptive and attended the Mass. They said their forecast was guarded.
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Doctors have said that Francis's condition is tactile, given his age, fragility and pre -existing pulmonary disease. They have warned that the main threat facing Francis is sepsis, a serious blood infection that can occur as a pneumonia complication.
To date there has been no reference to any appearance of sepsis in the medical updates provided by the Vatican.
This hospitalization is now Francis's longest as the Pope. He spent 10 days at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome in 2021 after he had 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his colon.
In New York on Sunday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan acknowledged what Church leaders in Rome did not say publicly: that the Catholic faithful were united “next to a bed of a dying father.”
“As our Holy Father, Pope Francis has a very, very fragile health, and probably close to death,” Dollan said in his homily from the pulpit of the Cathedral of St. Patrick, although he later told the journalists that he expected and He said Francis “bounce.” back.”
Francis's condition has revived speculation about what could happen if it becomes unconscious or incapacitated in another way, and if I could give up.
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