Cora Aquino – to remain in hospital

This is our previous president and she has cancer – this article was taken from The PhilNews.com; she remain in hospital indefinitely. It is sad to hear this as all you know that I just lost my Mom recently to same illness Cancer of the Colon – this is really a wake up call for all women not just men, but ALL of us to seriously take care of ourselves now!…See story below.

CANCER-STRICKEN former President Corazon Aquino is no longer in pain after being rushed to hospital two weeks ago, but will remain there for an indefinite period, her daughter said yesterday.

The 76-year-old Aquino, who led the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 after the downfall of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was hospitalized with complications arising from colon cancer.

She has refused further chemotherapy and her family had issued a statement that said they were leaving her fate to God.

“She is comfortable, she is not in pain, and to this day, she makes us feel loved and appreciated,” Aquino’s celebrity daughter Kristina Bernadette Aquino told ABS-CBN television.

The 38-year-old added that her mother would have to stay in hospital indefinitely, saying her mother was grateful for the public’s show of support, including hundreds of e-mail sent to her official Web site since last week.

“You have never made our family love being Filipinos as much as you have made us love being Filipinos now,” Aquino said.

The murder of Aquino’s husband, Benigno Aquino Jr., in 1983 led to widespread street protests that culminated three years later in the toppling of Marcos, who had ruled the Philippines for 20 years with an iron hand.

Aquino was installed as president shortly thereafter.

She is credited for reintroducing democracy after a 20-year Marcos regime mired in corruption and human rights abuses.

Aquino is known as a moral crusader. After her term ended in 1992, she continued to fight for various causes, including anti-corruption efforts.

She helped mobilize street protests against ex-president Joseph Estrada, who was toppled in a military-backed popular revolt in 2001.

Aquino reconciled with Estrada last year, and both of them joined street protests against current President Gloria Arroyo, whose family they accused of massive corruption. AFP