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Ex-US President George H.W. Bush admitted to ICU
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December 28, 2012, Friday
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FORMER US President George H.W. Bush was admitted to a hospital intensive care unit after " a series of setbacks including a persistent fever," but is alert and talking to medical staff, his spokesman said.
Jim McGrath, Bush's spokesman in Houston, said in a brief e-mail on Wednesday that Bush was admitted to the ICU at Methodist Hospital on Sunday. He said doctors are cautiously optimistic about his treatment and that the former president "remains in guarded condition."
No other details were released about his condition, but McGrath said Bush is surrounded by family.
The 88-year-old has been hospitalized since November 23, when he was admitted for a lingering cough related to bronchitis after having been in and out of the hospital for complications related to the illness.
McGrath said a fever that kept Bush in the hospital over Christmas had gotten worse and that doctors had put him on a liquids-only diet.
"It's an elevated fever...," McGrath said. "It's a stubborn fever that won't go away."
But he said the cough that initially brought Bush to the hospital has improved.
Bush, the oldest former US president, was visited on Christmas by his wife Barbara, his son Neil, and Neil's wife Maria, and a grandson, McGrath said. Bush's daughter Dorothy was also expected to visit. He has also been visited twice by his sons, George W. Bush, also a former president, and Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida.
Jim McGrath, Bush's spokesman in Houston, said in a brief e-mail on Wednesday that Bush was admitted to the ICU at Methodist Hospital on Sunday. He said doctors are cautiously optimistic about his treatment and that the former president "remains in guarded condition."
No other details were released about his condition, but McGrath said Bush is surrounded by family.
The 88-year-old has been hospitalized since November 23, when he was admitted for a lingering cough related to bronchitis after having been in and out of the hospital for complications related to the illness.
McGrath said a fever that kept Bush in the hospital over Christmas had gotten worse and that doctors had put him on a liquids-only diet.
"It's an elevated fever...," McGrath said. "It's a stubborn fever that won't go away."
But he said the cough that initially brought Bush to the hospital has improved.
Bush, the oldest former US president, was visited on Christmas by his wife Barbara, his son Neil, and Neil's wife Maria, and a grandson, McGrath said. Bush's daughter Dorothy was also expected to visit. He has also been visited twice by his sons, George W. Bush, also a former president, and Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida.
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