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Serving Catholics in Western North Carolina in the Diocese of Charlotte
Volume
5
Number 44 • August
30, 1996
Doctors Say Mother Teresa Is Out Of Danger —
CALCUTTA, India (CNS) Mother Teresa has been taken off a respirator and is out of danger, but doctors will continue to monitor her closely, members of her medical team said Aug. 28.
"The
fact that
we have taken
her off sup-
means we don't think she
port obviously
is
in
danger now," said Dr. Sudipta Sen, one of the doctors treating the Nobel laureate at
Wood-
Home.
lands Nursing
"She has been breathing on her own," Sen is sitting up in bed, but it will be some time before she is allowed to walk around the room. "She is certainly improving, and we anticipate she will be gradually up and about. She is eating barley water and soup and milk on her own. She also has an oxygen mask, which she wears now and again." Mother Teresa spoke for the first time Aug. 27, and Dr. Dinamani Banerjee said she expressed concern about who would pay her added. "She
hospital bills.
Doctors took Mother Teresa off a respiAug. 26. Sen said Aug. 27 that the oxygen tube in her throat would be removed within 24 hours if there were no comrator for six hours
plications.
Missionary of Charity Sister Andrea said Mother Teresa was pestering doctors to be allowed to leave the hospital. "It's
almost like a resurrection," she said.
Mother Teresa, who founded the Missionaries of Charity, celebrated her 86th birthday
Although some members of the some wire service reports said her birthday was Aug. 26, other news organizations insisted her birthday was Aug. 27. The Associated Press reported that "in 1993, then-Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao in the hospital.
order and
erroneously sent birthday greetings a day early, beginning a tradition of celebrating the occasion on both days."
Mother Teresa was admitted to the hosAug. 20 with a fever. Doctors discovered she had malaria, and at one point her heartbeat was irregular "only for a few seconds" before doctors corrected it, Sen said. She also received antibiotics for a lung
pital
infection.
sat
With the help of nurses, Mother Teresa up in bed Aug. 26 for a short period. Be-
cause of the tube in her throat, she could not speak, but wrote short notes. "I
want
to see sisters," she wrote.
When
she was visited by six of her Missionaries of Charity she scribbled another note that said, "Sisters,
God
Photo by
bless you."
Mother Teresa has been "a wonderful pabut difficult at times because she tries to up and move," said Sen. Indian Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda and Archbishop Henry D'Souza of Calcutta
tient,
get
See Mother, page 6
Kindergartners Sherri Haskins and Alexandra Elkins of St. Michael School during free play. The two girls returned to class Aug. 21
inside
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