“He even joked with me about when we would do the third operation,” said Dr Sergio Alfieri, the chief surgeon at Rome’s Gemelli hospital – who also carried out a first abdominal operation on the pontiff in 2021.
The surgeon said that Francis, 86, had reacted well to general anaesthesia and that he expected the pontiff to spend around a week in hospital. But he cautioned that the pope recently had bronchitis so the hospital “will take all necessary precautions” regarding the timing of the hospital stay.
His only warning to the pope was that he should not lift any heavy objects. “He looked at me as if to say ‘I’m the pope. I don’t lift weights,’” Dr Alfieri said.
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