Barbara Bush to focus on comfort care amid 'failing health,' spokesman says

Barbara Bush to focus on comfort care amid 'failing health,' spokesman says

Barbara Bush to focus on comfort care amid 'failing health,' spokesman says

 

Former first lady Barbara Bush is in "failing health" and will not seek additional medical treatment after a series of recent hospitalizations, a family spokesman said Sunday.

The 92-year-old wife of former President George H.W. Bush will instead focus on comfort care, a family spokesman Jim McGrath said in a statement.

“Following a recent series of hospitalizations, and after consulting her family and doctors, Mrs. Bush, now age 92, has decided not to seek additional medical treatment and will instead focus on comfort care. It will not surprise those who know her that Barbara Bush has been a rock in the face of her failing health, worrying not for herself — thanks to her abiding faith — but for others,” the statement read.

“She is surrounded by a family she adores, and appreciates the many kind messages and especially the prayers she is receiving,” it continued.

McGrath did not elaborate on Bush’s health problems. For decades, she has been treated for Graves' disease, a thyroid condition.

Barbara Bush has been married to George H.W. Bush since 1945, when she was 19 and he was 20. They have six children, including former President George W. Bush.

The Bushes have been married longer than any presidential couple in American history and Barbara Bush is one of only two first ladies who was also the mother of a president. The other was Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams.

The former first lady wrote Smith College's alumnae magazine last month she's "still old and still in love with the man" she married in 1945, the Boston Globe reported.

“I have had great medical care and more operations than you would believe. I’m not sure God will recognize me; I have so many new body parts! Also, George Bush has given me the world. He is the best — thoughtful and loving,” she said.

U.S. Represetative to the United Nations Nikki Haley tweeted Sunday that Barbara Bush is "a lady of extraordinary confidence, incredible quality, and a faithful love of nation."

Previous U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, now the perpetual U.S. agent to NATO, depicted Bush as "one of America's most-adored ladies," while "The View" co-have Meghan McCain called her "a lady of awesome quality, patriotism and a notorious first woman of our circumstances who has touched and roused incalculable lives."

George H.W. Bramble, 94, additionally has had medical problems as of late.

In April 2017, he was discharged from a clinic in Houston in the wake of being dealt with for two weeks for a mellow instance of pneumonia and unending bronchitis. Months sooner, he was at Houston's Methodist Hospital for 16 days, likewise for pneumonia.

The country's 41st president additionally was hospitalized in 2015 in Maine, where he and his significant other spend summers at their home in Kennebunkport, subsequent to falling at home and softening a bone up his neck. He was hospitalized in Houston in December 2014 for about seven days for shortness of breath and spent Christmas 2012 in escalated tend to a bronchitis-related hack and different issues.

Hedge, who filled in as president from 1989 to 1993, has a type of Parkinson's illness and utilizations a mechanized bike or a wheelchair for versatility. He likewise filled in as a congressman, CIA chief and Ronald Reagan's VP.

Barbara Pierce Bush was conceived in Rye, N.Y. Her dad was the distributor of McCall's and Redbook magazines. She wedded at age 19 while George Bush was a youthful maritime pilot. After World War II, the Bushes moved to Texas where he went into the oil business.

Alongside her journals, she's the creator of "C. Fred's Story" and "Millie's Book," in view of the lives of her puppies. Continues from the books profited grown-up and family education programs. The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy started amid her White House a long time with the objective of enhancing the lives of hindered Americans by boosting proficiency among guardians and their kids. The establishment accomplices with neighborhood programs and had granted more than $40 million to make or grow in excess of 1,500 education programs across the nation.