Former President George H. W. Bush was hospitalized on Sunday after experiencing low blood pressure and fatigue, a spokesman said.
May 27 (UPI) — Former President George H. W. Bush was hospitalized on Sunday after experiencing low blood pressure and fatigue, a spokesman said.
Bush’s spokesman, Jim McGrath, shared a tweet stating the 93-year-old Bush was taken to a hospital in Maine, where he is expected to remain for a few days for evaluation.
« The former president is awake and alert, and not in any discomfort, » McGrath said.
Prior to being hospitalized, Bush joined fellow veterans at the Post 159 monthly pancake breakfast in Kennebunkport on Saturday for Memorial Day weekend.
« This weekend we remember, and thank, all who have given their lives for our great country, » Bush wrote on Twitter.
Bush decided to appear at the breakfast after he learned members of his staff, including his former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft were planning to attend.
« It was very spur of the moment. It being Memorial Day, having a chance to spend some time with veterans seemed like the thing to do for him, » McGrath told the Portland Press Herald.
Bush returned to his family compound in Maine last Monday, after he was admitted to the intensive-care unit at Houston’s Methodist Hospital for two weeks as he fought off a blood infection.
He was hospitalized for the infection a day after the funeral for his wife, former first lady Barbra Bush, who died at the age of 92 in April.
Bush, the oldest-living former president — and longest-lived president in U. S. history — has vascular parkinsonism, a form of Parkinson’s disease.
