HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush remains Monday in a Houston hospital, where he is being treated for a painful, lingering bronchitis-related cough, and there is no timeline at the moment for his release, his spokesman said.Initially, aides had said the 88-year-old 41st president would be released from the hospital over the weekend. But his condition remained the same, and it was decided not to discharge him, said Methodist Hospital spokesman George Kovacik.”They’re not in any hurry, so they’re just keeping him here, but there’s really no change in his condition,” Kovacik said. “He’s stable and he’s still here.”Bush has been in and out of the hospital for treatment of the cough since last month. The former president also has a form of Parkinson’s disease that forces him to use a wheelchair or motorized scooter.The ex-president and his wife, Barbara, live in Houston during the winter, and spend their summers in a home in Kennebunkport, Maine.Bush’s condition has improved in recent days, his spokesman in Houston, Jim McGrath, said, and he has been receiving visitors. While he has not been diagnosed with pneumonia, which can be dangerous in elderly people, and the cough is not life-threatening, the doctors and Bush himself prefer to wait until the cough completely goes away before sending him home.Continue Reading… … Read More
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Former President George H.W. Bush hospitalized
HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston for treatment of a lingering cough.Bush’s chief of staff, Jean Becker, says the 88-year-old former president is being treated for bronchitis at Houston’s Methodist Hospital. She says he was admitted last Friday and is expected to be released by the weekend.Becker told the Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/X4y5iF ) on Thursday that the illness was not life-threatening but there had been concerns it could have developed into pneumonia.Becker’s office referred questions to Bush’s spokesman, who did not immediately respond to calls from The Associated Press.Bush’s son, former President George W. Bush, has been among visitors.Continue Reading… … Read More
