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i read this in the SUn yesterday and apperently the doctor is going to sign a petiton as well as a few other ppl stating that THe mother will go back once the visa expires but they are asking for an extended one just incase Gladys dies shes here for it all! The visa office in Colombia is saying there affraid that she wont return to colombia! but i think its sad that our government is so stupid!!

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Tue, August 1, 2006
Mom needs visa for dying wish 'I want to see her before it's too late'
By TOM GODFREY, TORONTO SUN
Cancer-ridden Gladys Orozco hopes her mother will be able to see her before she dies. (Mark O'Neill, Sun)

The heartbroken mom of cancer-stricken Gladys Orozco made a 14-hour trek to Bogota again yesterday to try to fulfill her daughter's dying wish.

"I want to be at my daughter's side," Marina Cardenas cried from Bogota yesterday. "This is my daughter's dying wish."

Cardenas, 60, arrived in Bogota yesterday after travelling from her home in Medellin to be at the head of the line at the Canadian embassy this morning to try again for a visa.

"My daughter needs 24-hour care," she said. "I want to see her before it is too late."

An embassy visa officer last week refused to grant Cardenas a visa, claiming she won't return home.


But Canadian immigration spokesman Karen Shadd-Evelyn yesterday said a review will be conducted if Cardenas files a new visa application today.

A grieving Orozco, 38, was weak and in despair as she prayed for her mom's arrival yesterday.

"It is my last wish to see my mother before I die," she sobbed from the Trillium Health Centre in Mississauga. "I don't know if I will ever see her again or if she will see me."

Family physician Dr. Cesar Garcia said Orozco's time is running out and a visit from her mom will help ease the pain.

"Her days are very limited," Garcia said yesterday. "She has an aggressive form of cancer."

He said patients suffering from the disease can live up to six months.

Orozco, a former bank teller for TD Canada Trust, was diagnosed with serious lung cancer last April.

TD Canada Trust spokesman Simon Townsend said the bank has sent a letter to the embassy in support of Orozco.

"It is a very sad case and we want to support her with this request," Townsend said yesterday.

Orozco came to Canada as a refugee in 2004 and has since obtained landed immigrant status. She was married a year ago.



-- Edited by TV Buff at 12:09, 2006-08-01

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