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Showing Original Post only (View all)Spokesman: George H.W. Bush in intensive care [View all]
Source: Boston.com
HOUSTON (AP) A spokesman says former President George H.W. Bush is in the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital.
Bushs spokesman, Jim McGrath, said Wednesday evening that the former president has been in the ICU at Methodist Hospital since Sunday.
No details were immediately provided. But earlier Wednesday, McGrath said a fever that kept Bush in the hospital over Christmas had gotten worse and that doctors had put him on a liquids-only diet.
A bronchitis-like cough initially brought Bush to the hospital on Nov. 23.
Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2012/12/26/spokesman-george-bush-intensive-care/nP4HMp5YzEqAijjmxC2NCI/story.html
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Bush Sr. has been looking kind of rough for a while, now, so this doesn't surprise me
Siwsan
Dec 2012
#1
on the other hand, as alice roosevelt longworth used to say, "if you can't say anything nice about
niyad
Dec 2012
#5
Alice was a pistol whose father felt he could either run the country or keep Alice under control -
indepat
Dec 2012
#23
Get well? He is sucking up expensive and valuable resources that those with less NEED!
cleanhippie
Dec 2012
#88
As someone who's lost a grandfather and a father, I pray for his family.
Drunken Irishman
Dec 2012
#7
I know if I had a cough and bronchitis, I would not be admitted to a hospital
dixiegrrrrl
Dec 2012
#45
rather like the English Princess who was hospitalized for morning sickness!!
Alamuti Lotus
Dec 2012
#52
I have had two friends hospitalized for the kind of morning sickness Kate Middleton has
dflprincess
Dec 2012
#64
I suffered what "the English Princess" has, and its the most awful thing I ever went through
Pachamama
Dec 2012
#70
I was going to ask someone to name one single positive thing that warmongering thug did.
niyad
Dec 2012
#19
welcome to DU-- many believe that there was something very fishy about him being the only
niyad
Dec 2012
#47
Poppy helped the little jerk avoid service by pulling strings to get him in the TANG
dflprincess
Dec 2012
#68
you mean, like the ones who were stealing the iraqi oil? the ones who were overproducing and
niyad
Dec 2012
#57
The babies-thrown-from-incubators story may have also helped dehumanize the Iraqis
cpwm17
Dec 2012
#93
the #1 thing that is suspicious is Poppy's "I don't know where I was on the day JFK was shot"
wordpix
Dec 2012
#85
He sired monsters who have sired monsters in like. I am sure he is ashamed of Jr.
larkrake
Dec 2012
#58