Friday, October 17, 2008 Margot asks: Pray for Tom
CEBU City First Lady Margot Osmeña asked city officials and friends to pray last night, as Mayor-on-leave Tomas Osmeña prepared to undergo surgery.
It was not clear as of press time what surgical procedure was performed, whether it was meant to remove only the malignant mass found in his urinary bladder or the entire bladder itself.
Past 8 p.m. yesterday or 8 a.m. Boston, Massachusetts time, city officials started receiving text messages from Margot, which were also forwarded to them by the mayor’s friends.
City Hall information officer Nagiel Bañacia and some city officials confirmed receiving the same message.
Osmeña, 60, was scheduled to have the surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center at 1 a.m. today.
“Before you go to bed tonight, please say a prayer for Tommy. He will be undergoing surgery 1 a.m. Friday, your time. Please join me in asking God to heal through the minds and hands of the doctors whom we have entrusted to take care of Tommy. All this we do with complete trust and gratitude in His love and mercy,” Margot’s text message read.
Osmeña was diagnosed last Oct. 4 as having a malignant tumor in his urinary bladder. Details on what stage the cancer is and whether or not it has spread to other organs were not made available to Sun.Star Cebu.
Last night, Bañacia said that text messages have started to circulate among Osmeña’s close friends.
“I got a text but not from the family that Tommy would go under the knife by 1 a.m. The text came from close friends asking to help pray for Tommy,” he told Sun.Star Cebu. (LCR)
