President Bush Receives Special Hospital Visit From His Son
Update, April 21, 2017: Former President George H.W. Bush remains in the hospital, but he did get a special visitor: his son. The elder Bush shared a photo of him and former President George W. Bush from the hospital on Thursday.
Big morale boost from a high level delegation. No father has ever been more blessed, or prouder. pic.twitter.com/ekX4VyG2aO
- George Bush (@GeorgeHWBush) April 20, 2017
The younger Bush shared the same photo on Instagram, saying his dad was "ready to come home."
Bush Sr. was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital last Friday with a case of pneumonia. Jeff McGarth, a spokesman for Bush, tweeted an update on his condition on Thursday, saying there was no change.
No change in President @GeorgeHWBush's condition to report today. He will remain at @MethodistHosp this evening,
- Jim McGrath (@jgm41) April 20, 2017
We're wishing him a speedy recovery!
Original, April 19, 2017: Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with a recurrence of a case of pneumonia he had earlier in the year, a family spokesman said Tuesday.
President and Mrs @GeorgeHWBush thank their fellow Americans and friends from around the world for their prayers and good wishes. pic.twitter.com/PhpXXGKl6p
- Jim McGrath (@jgm41) January 23, 2017
The 92-year-old former president and father of former president George W. Bush has been in Methodist Hospital in Houston since Friday for observation because of a persistent cough, Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said in a brief statement. He said doctors diagnosed a mild case of pneumonia that has been treated and resolved.
The former president "is in very good spirits and is being held for further observation while he regains his strength," McGrath said.
Bush, who served as president from 1989 to 1993, had spent 16 days in the hospital for treatment of pneumonia in January.
He was hospitalized in 2015 in Maine after falling at his summer home and breaking a bone in his neck. He was also hospitalized in Houston the previous December for about a week for shortness of breath. He spent Christmas 2012 in intensive care for a bronchitis-related cough and other issues.
Bush has a form of Parkinson's disease and uses a motorized scooter or a wheelchair for mobility. Despite his loss of mobility, Bush celebrated his 90th birthday by making a tandem parachute jump in Kennebunkport, Maine. Last summer, Bush led a group of 40 wounded warriors on a fishing trip at the helm of his speedboat, three days after his 92nd birthday celebration.
George Herbert Walker Bush, born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, also served as a congressman, CIA director and Ronald Reagan's vice president.
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