"As you can see, I'm still alive," Pope Francis tells participants in a seminar on ethics in health care management. "Thank God it wasn't pneumonia. It is a very acute, infectious bronchitis. I don't have a fever anymore, but I'm still on antibiotics & stuff."
Francis and the Vatican were very wrong to continue his audiences despite his ill health. He caught his illness in the first place associating with all those TRANs female homosexual prostitutes he had bused in from squalid sections of Rome and hosted them to a luncheon in the Vatican, sitting at table with them and talking to them at length. And by Saturday he was sick.
Now besides being still sick, and looking worse, he has had audiences and meetings with people, exposing them to the same illness he has. That was selfish and wrong.
My Uncle is an MD and I texted him about this last night. He said the regime of antibiotics is standard. The wheezing and coughing is because his whole bronchial area is infected....the lung inflammation is an additional issue (the bronchial and lungs are not one and the same). He said it takes about 2 weeks for acute bronchitis to clear up. What is important, especially for an elderly person is rest, plenty of liquids, and a regime of strong antibiotics. Walking around working, or walking around spreading germs and infection isn't the answer. Walking around/exertion will only aggrivate the bronchial issue and lung inflammation, causeing increased breathing difficulty which may put a big strain on the heart (which is an even worse problem).
But of course Francis will do as he pleases, as usuall. I asked if this could have a perminant effect on Francis. My uncle said that anytime a very aged person is sick like this, it is harder for them to bounce back, and they are not as strong as before they got sick.
I don't think Francis has much time left. I think he is trying to act normal, masking health issues which are becoming much more serious.