Chicago's First Lady Maggie Daley, who was admitted to a Washington D.C. hospital over the weekend, is expected to be released today.
Daley was in Washington with her husband, Mayor Richard M. Daley, and their two daughters to receive a Leadership Award from the Kuwait-America Foundation when she began feeling pain in her lower back and right leg, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. She was hospitalized at Georgetown University Medical Center Friday.
Dr. Steve Rosen, Maggie Daley's doctor and director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, told the Chicago Tribune her condition had improved over the weekend, and she would be returning to Chicago late Monday or early Tuesday.
"I spoke with Maggie this morning, she feels better," Rosen told NBC Chicago. "There's nothing dramatically new with her condition."
In 2002, Mrs. Daley was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer.
From the Sun-Times:
Maggie Daley, 67, already has more than tripled the average life expectancy for patients diagnosed with the disease in which cancer cells spread beyond the breast and lymph nodes.
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Asked whether the pain higher up in the right leg and in her lower back was a sign of a further spread of her cancer, Rosen said: "Not necessarily. Cancer has been in her bones. She has no problem in other organs. Because the bone is fragile, just by walking you could have these microfractures."
Nora Daley, daughter of the mayor and his wife, accepted the award in D.C. on her mother's behalf.