VATICAN CITY — Doctors examined Pope Benedict XVI’s broken wrist at the pontiff’s Alpine vacation chalet and are pleased with how the injury is healing, a Vatican spokesman said Saturday.
During the half-hour checkup, the cast on the fractured right wrist was removed and a new one put on, the Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a statement.
The 82-year-old pope had surgery at the hospital July 17 on his right wrist, which he fractured in a fall in the chalet near Aosta. Doctors from Aosta hospital as well as Vatican doctors carried out medical and radiological exams at the chalet in the mountains near the French border, Lombardi said.
The exams yielded “excellent results,” Lombardi said. “The (healing) process is good and is in line with what was expected.” Vatican CTV television captured some of the pope’s chatting with his doctors, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
