Doctors are optimistic
The health of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush continues to worsen. The latest data released to the press report that remains in the intensive care unit at a hospital in Houston, according to statements by Jim McGrath, spokesman for the Bush family.
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McGrath had declared Wednesdays night that the former president had been admitted to intensive care on Sunday after presenting 'various problems, including persistent fever'.
McGrath said Bush is conscious and talking with medical staff and doctors are optimistic, but cautiously, about your treatment.
The former president has been over a month since last November 23, hospitalized for bronchitis at Methodist Hospital in Houston (Texas) and is in the intensive care unit of the hospital since Sunday, said NBC .
Expect improvement
McGrath explained that Bush fever, 88 years old, had "high" in recent days so the doctors had decided to submit to a liquid diet.
Although at first the doctors had expected to recover to spend the holidays with his family, is now expected, the former president of the United States between 1989 and 1993, remains in the hospital.
"His mood is relentlessly positive and jokes with their doctors," said McGrath told the local television station KPRC in Houston.
He explained that Bush is "surrounded by his family, which is the best medicine, and although not the ideal way to spend Christmas and the circumstances."
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