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Friday, October 17, 2008
Prayers sought for Cebu mayor's surgery
CEBU CITY - Cebu City First Lady Margot Osmeña asked city officials and friends to pray Thursday night, as Mayor-on-leave Tomas Osmeña prepared to undergo surgery.
It was not clear as of this posting 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.
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Past 8 p.m. Thursday 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. Friday.
"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.
On Thursday night, Bañacia said 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 of Sun.Star Cebu)
For more Philippine news, visit Sun.Star Davao. (October 17, 2008 issue)
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