KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) — George H.W. Bush, the oldest living former U.S. president, fell at his summer home on Wednesday and broke a bone in his neck but was doing OK, a spokesman said.
Bush, 91, was hospitalized in stable condition and was doing “fine” after Wednesday’s fall, spokesman Jim McGrath said. McGrath tweeted that the 41st president would be in a neck brace.
Bush was being treated at Portland’s Maine Medical Center, where a children’s hospital is named for his wife.
Bush, who has a form of Parkinson’s disease that has forced him to use a motorized scooter or wheelchair for mobility, has suffered a few other recent health setbacks. He was hospitalized in Houston in December for about a week for treatment of shortness of breath. He said he was grateful to the doctors and nurses for their care there.
He spent Christmas 2012 in intensive care at the same Houston hospital while being treated for a bronchitis-related cough and other issues. He was discharged in January 2013 after a nearly two-month stay.
Bush, a Republican, served two terms as Ronald Reagan’s vice president before being elected president in 1988. After one term, highlighted by the success of the 1991 Gulf War in Kuwait, he lost to Democrat Bill Clinton amid voters’ concerns about the economy.
Bush, the father of Republican former President George W. Bush, was a naval aviator in World War II and was shot down over the Pacific. He also was a former U.S. ambassador to China and a CIA director.
He has skydived on at least three of his birthdays since leaving the White House. He celebrated his 90th birthday by making a tandem parachute jump near his summer home in Kennebunkport.
He celebrated a low-key 91st birthday with his family at the home on the Maine coast.
During the winter, Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush, live in Houston.
Another Bush son, Republican former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, is running for president in 2016.
too bad he didn’t f#@king die.
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Skull and broken bones ..hope he is ok..he needs to live long enough to be hung .
Good point.
I hope it hurts like HELL until he gets there!!
As a retired nurse let me tell you what is necessary to heal this bone. It is not a happy procedure. First off you have a halo brace the neck must remain immobile. the head part of the brace is screwed into the skull in multiple places front and back for support. The lower part rests on the shoulders see image link below. this upright position must be maintained for weeks to months depending on the speed of healing. For George’s age that will take probably months. Enjoy George.
http://kidshealth.org/parent/question/medical/halo_brace.html
This is for child teaching but the same brace only larger is used for the adult.
In case he gets itchy, I suggest one of these:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/14/e-collar-alternatives_n_3923241.html
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I was hoping it was a chainsaw! I wish him nothing but the very recovery he richly deserves. An unattainable agonizing one that ultimately leads to a painful death, followed swiftly by judgement and eternal damnation. Godspeed to him. “Spit!”…
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cool
boo that man/lizard
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Why is GEORGE WASHINGTON next to him in the above picture?
damn, went straight to comments, that’s fricken funny, thanks… I’m still laughin…
damn…so close…Wonder who he P.O’d… 🙁
You beat me to this one Hal. I keep wondering why creatures such as him, can have these accidents and keep on kicking. Don’t they ever die? I hope he’s in pain for the rest of his miserable days.
It’ll become REALLY suspicisous when he, David Rockefeller, Kissinger, and Cheney are all celebrating their 150th birthday together and we’re all dead.
What’s with this psychopath? The Nazi scumbag has 9 lives. He just won’t croak.