The former United States President George Herbert Walker Bush, 90 years old, hospitalized Tuesday, December 23nd in Houston, Texas for respiratory difficulties, stayed a second night in the hospital with as a precaution, while his portfolio said that he had a good day, and the prognosis is favorable. This allowed Bush to maintain a high spirit while enduring through the hospital protocols through the holiday season.
George HW Bush is the eldest of four former US presidents still alive and now appears most often in wheelchairs, the use of his legs stripped by the Parkinson’s disease. Last June, nevertheless, he celebrated his 90th birthday by skydiving near Kennebunkport in Maine with the Army’s Golden Knight parachute team. Main remains one of the residences of the Bush family.
With one son’s presidency down, another a candidate, the Bush family receives a lot of support from the public in this time of care. “The Bush family certainly appreciates all your prayers, love and concern. This is not two years ago. It’s a hiccup. He should come home in a few days,” Jean Becker, Bush’s chief of staff. The former president was hospitalized in November 2012 for bronchitis in Houston for two months. His wife, Barbara, had been hospitalized in the same facility just one year later for pneumonia.
Born in 1924 in the Massachusetts State senator father, George HW Bush became in 1989 the one term (1989-1993), the 41st President of the United States. Moderate Republican, he sent US troops during the first Gulf War following the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein.
Defeated by Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992, he saw the eldest of six children, George W. Bush, became president in turn eight years later. Jeb Bush, another of its son, recently announced that it was launching also in the race for the White House in 2016.
“President Bush’s condition has improved to the point that doctors have begun discussing dates for his discharge. He will remain at the Houston Methodist Hospital through the weekend for further observation,” said his spokesman Jim McGrath. There doesn’t seem to be any cause to worry. And with the same hospital being a comforting resort for Bush to return to, it’s no wonder why hope remains high, pleasure as always is to witness.