{"id":392825,"date":"2010-03-05T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T15:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a901cfe2970b"},"modified":"2010-03-05T17:13:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:13:41","slug":"maggie-daley-undergoes-leg-surgery-in-cancer-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/392825","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Daley undergoes leg surgery in cancer fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Hal Dardick<\/em> at 9:48 a.m.; last updated at 4:13 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mayor Richard Daley\u2019s wife, Maggie, underwent surgery today at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to strengthen a\u00a0leg damaged by cancer and the resulting treatment, the mayor’s office said.<\/p>\n

"It\u2019s a procedure that will reinforce the bone so there is less likelihood of fracture,\u201d said Jacquelyn Heard, the mayor\u2019s press secretary.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The mayor and his daughters were visiting with Maggie Daley this afternoon at the hospital, where she was expected to stay \u201cat least a couple days\u201d for follow-up treatment to the surgery, Heard said.<\/p>\n

The mayor declined to take questions at a lunch hour event to discuss federal money for a South Side rail crossing bottleneck where construction will begin this year to build a flyover bridge to separate freight and passenger traffic.<\/p>\n

Maggie Daley, 66, was in surgery for nearly two hours until 11:30 a.m., Heard said. The surgery went as planned, she added. <\/p>\n

She has been battling metastatic breast cancer since 2002. The mayor in December announced his wife would be using a wheelchair to get around while she was undergoing radiation treatment for a cancerous bone tumor on her right leg. She later was getting around on crutches, and it\u2019s hoped that the surgery will help the city\u2019s first lady make further progress, Heard said.\n<\/p>\n

The surgery is being done by Orthopedic oncologist Dr. Alan Yasko, she said, adding that she did not know how long it would take. \u201cThe surgery is not done yet,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s in the midst of it as we speak.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted by Hal Dardick at 9:48 a.m.; last updated at 4:13 p.m. Mayor Richard Daley\u2019s wife, Maggie, underwent surgery today at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to strengthen a\u00a0leg damaged by cancer and the resulting treatment, the mayor’s office said. "It\u2019s a procedure that will reinforce the bone so there is less likelihood of fracture,\u201d said Jacquelyn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}