Posted on 12/23/2012 10:37:40 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
President George H.W. Bush, who has been in a Houston hospital with a lingering cough since November, needs to "build up his energy" before he can be released, doctors said Sunday.
Methodist Hospital spokesman George Kovacik said in an emailed statement that doctors are still optimistic the 88-year-old Bush will make a full recovery, but are being "extra cautious" with his care. Bush is in stable condition, he said.
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Thanks for the update.
Prayers for President Bush.
At his age the hospital is a very dangerous place to be.A man that age being bedridden for that long opens him up to pneumonia (among other things).
Prayers for President Bush.
No kidding. Over a month as an inpatient for a cough!?!
Sure would be nice to be told the true story about something
anything, once in a while.
At his age the hospital is a very dangerous place to be.A man that age being bedridden for that long opens him up to pneumonia (among other things).
You are correct, a hospital is a dangerous place to be . Until you look at any other option.
WTF are you talking about ?
I was speaking of *medical* danger.I worked for years in a large hospital...the ER,to be exact.We'd regularly receive little old ladies who had fallen at their nursing home and broken their hip.The nurses,when sending these patients up to the orthopedic floor,would sometimes say "she won't leave here alive".The reason for that isn't the fracture itself...it's pneumonia,a huge risk for any elderly person who's bedridden even for a short time.
Oh my... not sounding too good. Prayers up!
Almost every night on the local news Mr Bush is mentioned. I would think he would be better off at home with 24 hours a day nursing care than in a hospital. How awful to be in a hospital for a month and just get weaker and weaker.
Get well soon Poppy..Prayers are with you..
Who said he could get out of bead. All bad things flow from being bedridden.
Who said he could get out of bed. All bad things flow from being bedridden.
It’s the germs. Hospitals are not clean.
He could be bedridden at home without all the germs. Any kind of physical therapy he could have in the hospital, he could get at home and it would be cleaner.
Don’t use that language, potty mouth!
I will say a prayer for him. Pneumonia is called the old man’s friend because it causes painless and peaceful passing. My father passed away on a December day from it. Senator Inouye passed away last week from respiratory problems. Nobody lasts forever.
This is worrisome for several reasons.
Pneumonia used to be called “the old man’s friend”, because the stress of lung problems can be very deadly to the elderly, and pneumonia is often an opportunistic disease.
“The menace posed by germs resistant to powerful antibiotics was all too apparent when a deadly, drug-
resistant form of pneumonia bacteria struck the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., last year. It infected 17 patients and killed 6 of them.
“This episode is especially chilling because the center is one of the nation’s most sophisticated research hospitals. It imposed incredibly stringent isolation and sterilization procedures, yet even these failed to keep the germ from spreading.
The scary part of the story is that a woman was treated at the hospital for the drug resistant pneumonia, in strict isolation, then released, and then, *weeks later*, other patients became sick with the disease.
And the disease in the new patients was identical to the disease in “patient zero”, indicating that it had come from her.
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