Maggie Daley Could Leave DC Hospital Monday
CHICAGO (WBBM/AP) - Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has canceled his public appearances for Monday as he remains by his wife's bedside at a Washington D.C. hospital. Maggie Daley should be getting out of the hospital sometime Monday or Tuesday.
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The Daleys were in Washington to pick up a leadership award from the Kuwaiti ambassador. While there, Mrs. Daley began experiencing severe leg pain and was hospitalized Friday at Georgetown University Medical Center. Her oncologist here, Northwestern University's Dr. Steven Rosen, spoke with her again last evening.
"Her spirits were good, she was feeling much better," Rosen told Newsradio 780.
He says she could be returning home tomorrow. Dr. Rosen's been coordinating her care with the doctors in Washington. He says they've eased the pain in her leg with medication and therapy. He doesn't see this as any kind of serious setback in her nearly-decade long battle with breast cancer that's spread to her bones.
"When you have disease in the bones, it's not infrequent that you'll have episodes where you can have microfractures or more significant fractures," he said.
He expects once Mrs. Daley recovers from this episode, she'll get back to the active and fulfilling life she's led in spite of her illness.
The mayor's wife has been battling metastatic breast cancer since 2002. Earlier she had a cancerous lesion in her right leg and had a titanium rod inserted in it last March.
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