Former President George H.W. Bush is in the
intensive care unit of a Houston
hospital and is in ``guarded condition,’’ family spokesman Jim McGrath has
said. According to McGraith in a statement “The president is alert and
conversing with medical staff, and is surrounded by family,’’ he said. “Following
a series of setbacks including a persistent fever, President Bush was admitted
to the intensive care unit at Methodist Hospital on Sunday where he remains in
guarded condition,’’ ``Doctors at Methodist continue to be cautiously
optimistic about the current course of treatment.’’ he added
The
88-year-old former US Republican president who took office in 1989 and served
one term in White House, was admitted to the hospital on Nov. 23 for
bronchitis. However, a hospital spokesman said in mid-December that the former
president was expected to be
home from the hospital in time for Christmas, but
the spokesman later said doctors felt that the former president should build up
his energy before going home.
Bush
has lower body Parkinsonism, which causes a loss of balance, and has used
wheelchairs for more than a year, McGrath said in an e-mail on Wednesday.
George
H.W.Bush is the father of former President George W. Bush and he had served as
a congressman, ambassador to the UN, envoy to China, CIA director and vice
president for two terms under Ronald Reagan.
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