Mahony Leaves Hospital After Treatment for Blood Clot
His treatment for a small blood clot successfully completed, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony was released from the hospital Friday with words of thanks for his medical care and the prayers of well-wishers.
No sooner had Mahony, 62, been released than he went to his downtown residence and then to his office on Wilshire Boulevard, said Father Gregory Coiro, spokesman for the archdiocese.
The Roman Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles was admitted to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank on July 24 after experiencing sharp pains in his right lower rib cage over a two-day period. Doctors determined the pain was caused by a small blood clot in his lung.
Mahony had surgery June 15 to remove a cancerous prostate gland. When the blood clot appeared about a month later, his office said it is not uncommon after a major surgery.
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