Francis, 86, left by means of Gemelli Polyclinic’s primary exit in a wheelchair, smiling and waving and saying “thanks” to a crowd of well-wishers, then stood up so he may get into the small Vatican automobile awaiting him.
In the transient distance earlier than he may attain the white Fiat 500, reporters thrust microphones virtually at his face, and the pontiff appeared to bat them away, good-naturedly.
“The Pope is well. He’s better than before,” Dr Sergio Alfieri, the surgeon who did the three-hour operation on June 7, told reporters as the Pope was driven away.
Hours after the surgery, Alfieri said that the scarring, which had resulted from previous abdominal surgeries, had been increasingly causing the Pope pain.
There was also a risk of an intestinal blockage, if adhesions, or scar tissue, weren’t removed, according to the doctors.
No complications occurred during the surgery or while the Pope was convalescing in Gemelli’s 10th-floor apartment reserved exclusively for hospitalisation of pontiffs, according to the Pope’s medical staff.
Source: www.9news.com.au
