Pope Francis approached death in the hospital, his doctor says

The Pope's doctor didn't think he had intended to make it.

“That's terrible,” Pope Francis gasped last month at a breathing crisis. The Pope admitted in a failed voice that his hand was hurt by immersing in a needle stab wound and a dangerously low 78 during his long hospital stay, and that he might die. He grabbed the doctor's hand.

Francis had ruled out intubation, but that would mean it would be kept unconscious, Dr. Sergio Alfieri, the head of the medical team, said in an interview. So his doctor decided to treat pneumonia in both lungs with a barrage of the last groove of drugs that could potentially damage his organs.

The Pope's closest aides shed tears in their eyes as they were given the authority to ask the Pope's personal nurses and make decisions of life or death, seeking permission to proceed with more aggressive treatment. He agreed, and in the end the Pope responded aggressively.

Still, the worst was still not over. Within a week, Francis began to suffocate the food and choking. The doctor quickly absorbed his airways, fearing that he might die on the spot, but worried that inhalation would worsen his deeply infected lungs. His Chief Doctor was worried that everything had been lost.

But that wasn't the case.

Thirty-eight days after he entered the Agostino Gemeri Hospital, Dr. Alfieri left the Roman Catholic Church leaders to return to the Vatican. He begged the patient who resisted going to the hospital in the first place and resisted resting and resting so that he would not waste the opportunity he was given.

“It was a miracle that he left the hospital,” Dr. Alfieri said, adding that the Pope was “not in danger.”

However, when Francis made a brief appearance over the weekend, the people were able to get a calm glimpse of the victims of the health crisis on the 88-year-old Pope. When I greeted the person who gleamed well from the hospital balcony, his voice was so weak that I couldn't hear and adjoined that his breathing sometimes seemed to make him breathe through the air.

“You can see the decline,” said Carlos Aguirre, a pilgrim from Colorado Springs, as he saw Francis struggle to speak.

Francis' doctors said the Pope agreed to a two-month recovery that puts him on the road to fully recover. However, the high priest close to Francis protects the possibility that his frailty is truly a new normal. They portrayed his physical weakness as a moment of powerful education about human dignity, arguing that his obvious lack of energy has nothing to do with his authority, even if it temporarily loosens the governance of his practical style.

For the next two months, Francis will become invisible, difficult to hear, more corridors and more likely to stick to the script. Vatican experts and officials say the constraints will be a challenge for Francis, who has created the hallmarks of far-reaching travel, physical intimacy to herds, dramatic gestures and free-holling style Pontifeetate over the past decades.

These touchstones of Francis' Pope are now pending. The Vatican said Thursday that he attended an Easter ritual in a special Jubilee year was uncertain in response to his improvements.

Buckingham Palace announced that King Charles III had postponed his Vatican visit. The Pope's schedule, once packed with appearances, gave way to written statements and statements.

Regarding Francis' recovery, Alberto Meloni, church historian and director of the Church of John XXIII Religious Science Foundation, said “it doesn't sparkle as much as it used to be.”

Dr. Alfieri said that he was equipped with oxygen but not other special equipment and had instructed the Pope to remain in the Vatican residence, and Francis agreed. He begged the Pope to avoid exposure to large groups, especially small children, for fear of a new infection.

Meanwhile, he takes oral medication in the hopes of a clear cure of the pulmonary infection. He said the Pope could work, but for the time being, he should not exert excessively himself.

“His voice will return as it was before,” said Dr. Alfieri, as Francis' respiratory muscles strengthened. Given the age of the Pope and the history of his illness, anything could happen, he said – Francis had respiratory illness throughout his life, including those that required parts of his lungs to be removed when he was a young man. However, doctors said over time, Francis expected that he could increase his workload as long as his health was protected.

Vatican analysts said he runs the church as before while the Pope lay low.

“He can even command from the bed,” said veteran Vatican Watcher Sandro Magister. “I know his personality and he's going to react very harshly to his attempts to keep him in control, for example.”

Some of Francis' allies in the church hierarchy went further, saying that his frailty is a new attribute that allows him to embody his own teachings.

“People say he won't speak, he won't speak to his mouth,” said Vincenzoparia, Archbishop of Pontifical Academy for Life, while introducing the summit on longevity at the Vatican. The Pope's state corresponded to the “deafening voice” of the reality of human limitations and the dignity of old age, he added. “We have to get out of an overly functionalist mindset.”

Twenty years ago, about Pope John Paul II, the same thing was said about Pope John Paul II, as his body trembling and trembling, and his head fell to one side. Like everyone else, it could become an increasingly popular theme as the Pope lived long and encouraged the Vatican summit this week on longevity.

Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, resigned at the age of 85, citing his age and frailty, and lived for another decade.

A few weeks after Francis' death, his progressive improvement was a relief for his doctors and the faithful Roman Catholics.

Dr. Alfieri said that his humor did so too when the treatment began to work and the Pope's health improved. He had staff ordered pizza on the hospital floor and entered the hall so that fellow patients could see him and have a common sense of their common vulnerability.

When it was time for Francis to leave, he was transformed into his white cassocks and zucquet in his room, Dr. Alfieri was not a Pope's doctor.

“To see the Pope,” he said, “It's certainly a huge feeling, for Catholics, to see someone dressed to a pajama patient, and to see him dressed up to the Pope again.”

Elisabetta Poboredo contributed a report from Rome.