Pope Francis, “wisely” following doctors’ advice, remains in hospital and will skip Sunday’s customary public blessing to allow himself to better heal after abdominal surgery earlier this week, his surgeon told reporters.
Blood and imaging tests indicate the 86-year-old Pope’s recovery is proceeding in an “absolutely normal” manner, Sergio Alfieri also told reporters on Saturday at Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome.
During the three-hour operation Wednesday using general anesthesia, doctors removed increasingly painful scarring that resulted from previous abdominal surgeries as well as repaired a hernia in the abdominal wall, with the insertion of a prosthetic support netting, or mesh.
Alfieri said Francis’s recovery has been medically uneventful, but any
