Why was Gloria Arroyo’s procedure kept secret?

Raul B. Guanzon, the cosmetic surgeon who operated on Gloria, might have unwittingly provided the answer.

“We put her to sleep because, if it’s local, it may be painful, so it’s better to put her into sleep because we can get the tissue without discomfort to the President. Immediately after, she was awake.”

So what?

Philippine Star columnist Marichu Villanueva, one of Gloria’s greatest fans, tells us why.

She wrote:

I distinctly recall the time that former President Fidel V. Ramos underwent a life-threatening carotid surgery when he suffered a near-fatal stroke at the Palace on Dec. 23, 1996. The late Presidential Security Group Gen. Jose Calimlim immediately notified then Vice President Joseph Estrada to proceed to Makati Medical Center before Mr. Ramos was put to sleep under major anesthesia. As constitutional successor, the Vice President was quietly alerted and was required to be physically present at the hospital for whatever the results would be. Fortunately, the surgery was a success and everything went back to normal. But credits go to the late PSG chief who made sure the constitutional requirements were followed.

So there.

Anyway, one of the medical staff who attended to Gloria has an interesting story to add.

Dr. Guanzon briefed President Gloria on the procedure before he put her under general anesthesia.

“Ma’am we will remove those lumps so we can do a biospy” said Dr. Guanzon.

“Okey dokey. Is it going to hurt?”

“No ma’am. You will be under general anesthesia.”

“Good. Anything else?”

“Opoh. We may have to remove your implants if we see that they are leaking.”

“Hay naku doc, if you remove my implants people might notice. I have a SONA coming up pa naman.”

And so the last thing on Gloria’s mind before she was put to sleep were her implants….

So when she woke up, she was still thinking about her implants and the first slurred words out of her mouth were, “Yun dagdag? Yun dagdag?”

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