{"id":29853,"date":"2017-01-18T22:28:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=29853"},"modified":"2017-01-18T22:28:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:28:46","slug":"george-h-w-bush-hospitalized-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=29853","title":{"rendered":"George H.W. Bush hospitalized in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Georgg\"International Desk: Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized but the 92-year-old is “fine” and expected to go home in a few days, his chief of staff told area media early Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Bush chief of staff Jean Becker tells the Houston Chronicle and KHOU-TV that the 41st president was recently admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital after becoming ill.<\/p>\n

“He's there. He's fine and he's doing really well,” Becker told the Chronicle.<\/p>\n

Becker did not specify the reason the oldest living U.S. president was hospitalized. Both media outlets said his office expects him to go home in a couple of days.<\/p>\n

Becker did not immediately return email or telephone calls to her office from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Bush, who served as U.S. president from 1989 to 1993, has a form of Parkinson's disease and uses a motorized scooter or a wheelchair for mobility. He was hospitalized in Maine in 2015 after falling at his summer home and breaking a bone in his neck, and was 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.<\/p>\n

Despite the loss of mobility, he celebrated his 90th birthday by making a tandem parachute jump in Kennebunkport. 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.<\/p>\n

His office announced earlier this month that Bush and his wife, Barbara, would not attend Donald Trump's inauguration this week due to the former president's age and health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International Desk: Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized but the 92-year-old is “fine” and expected to go home in a few days, his chief of staff told area media early Wednesday. Bush chief of staff Jean Becker tells the Houston Chronicle and KHOU-TV that the 41st president was recently admitted to Houston Methodist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n