Tom slips out of hospital, attends wake

DESPITE doctors’ orders, Rep. Tomas Osmeña of Cebu City’s south district slipped out of  Chong Hua Hospital at 11:30 a.m. yesterday and went home.

He  attended the funeral  wake of the father of a  close friend  then returned to the private hospital, where he’s being treated for an infection.

His wife, Councilor Margot Osmeña, said she was surprised to learn about his “escape” from the family driver.

The congressman went home to barangay Guadalupe to shower and change.

“I asked (the driver) why he was at home when he’s supposed to be at the hospital with Tommy  and he said Tommy was  home. I said, ‘What? Why are you there?’” Margot said.

Osmeña said he went to extend his condolences to the family of Edward Hayco, whose father engineer Go Ching Hai, 87, passed away  Tuesday night of heart failure.

The wake was held at the Sacred Heart Chapel in D. Jakosalem Street.

“The doctors decided that we continue the administration of the antibiotic intravenously and not by pills or oral administration. But the next round of antibiotics would be at 4 p.m. so I decided to go home,” the congressman said.

He has three more sessions to go.

The congressman went to the wake at 3 p.m. dressed in a T-shirt with an IV tube  attached to his right hand.

He stayed for an hour.

“Everyone was shocked to see me at the wake. I told them: ‘I am Lazarus, I’m back from the dead,’” he said in jest.

The congressman is  expected to be discharged  tomorrow.

He was confined last Saturday after experiencing chills and fever.

The congressman said blood tests showed he had an infection caused by  E. coli bacteria.