Imelda Marcos Released After 3 Days in Hospital for Gastritis : Philippines: The ex-first lady collapsed during her racketeering trial. Proceedings are to resume Tuesday.

Former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos left a hospital Sunday, saying she felt “much better” three days after she collapsed during her racketeering trial suffering from stomach pains and bleeding from the mouth.

Wearing a black dress covered with a black shawl, Marcos was brought out of New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center on the Upper East Side in a wheelchair shortly before noon.

A few feet from her black Mercedes-Benz sedan, the heavily made-up Marcos stood up from the wheelchair and walked slowly to the car.

“I feel much better,” she whispered as she sat in the back seat.

Marcos, 60, collapsed Thursday during her racketeering trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan and was carried from the courtroom on a stretcher. Her face pale and eyes closed, she was loaded into an ambulance with an oxygen mask over her mouth.

Marcos is being tried on charges that she and her late husband, former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, conspired to buy New York real estate, art and jewelry with $222 million stolen from their homeland.

After Marcos’ collapse, Judge John F. Keenan recessed her trial until Tuesday.

Doctors diagnosed Marcos as suffering from erosive gastritis, an acid-related stomach condition that is not life-threatening, said Mary Cialone, a spokeswoman for New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center.

Erosive gastritis, which affects the stomach lining, requires intravenous medication to suppress production of acid.

Cialone said Marcos’ condition had stabilized by Sunday, and she was released into the care of her personal physician.

The incident Thursday was the third in which Marcos, who suffers from high blood pressure, has collapsed in court since her trial began April 3.