Barbara Bush in failing health
Source: CNN
By Jamie Gangel, CNN
Updated 2:12 PM ET, Sun April 15, 2018
(CNN)Former first lady Barbara Bush is in failing health, a source close to the Bush family tells CNN.
At 92 years old, Bush has been suffering for some time and has been in and out of the hospital multiple times in the last year while battling with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, and congestive heart failure.
The source said she is being cared for at her home in Houston and has decided she does not want to go back into the hospital.
The office of former President George H. W. Bush released a statement, confirming after a "recent series of hospitalizations," she has decided against seeking additional medical help.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/15/politics/barbara-bush-health/index.html
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,779 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)profession can sometimes make this part harder than it needs to be despite their best intentions.
Archae
(46,373 posts)Said no more chemo for his pancreatic cancer, and he died happy, at my sister's house.
hlthe2b
(102,508 posts)and COPD. I suppose she rarely went out in it, but I'd surely have tried to get her into a more amenable climate if I'd had all the $$ that the Bushes have.
Roy Rolling
(6,943 posts)She played the part of First Lady with grace and aplomb.
cannabis_flower
(3,769 posts)Former first lady Barbara Bush said that New Orleans refugees being housed in the Houston Astrodome were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/working-very-well-for-them/
STATUS: TRUE.
ORIGINS: On 5 September 2005, Mrs. Bush and her husband,
Bushes at Houston Astrodome
former president George Bush, toured the Astrodome complex in Houston that is being used as temporary lodging for thousands of displaced citizens from New Orleans and visited with evacuees being housed there. On this walk-thru of the make-shift quarters that amount to little more than a sea of cots in a wide open room, they were accompanied by former president Bill Clinton and his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The visit was intended as a bipartisan show of support for victims and a as forum for announcing the creation of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, a charitable endeavor aimed at facilitating short and long term relief efforts in the afflicted Gulf Coast states.
Later that day, Mrs. Bush was a guest on Marketplace, a show on public radio. During that interview she made these remarks about her interactions with the people quartered in the Astrodome:
Almost everyone Ive talked to says, Were going to move to Houston. What Im hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them.
New Orleans residents housed in the various post-Katrina evacuation camps (such as the Astrodome) lost to the hurricane and the subsequent flood their loved ones, homes, jobs, pets, and their possessions. Their city sustained a tremendous amount of damage that may take years to repair, and they may never live there again. That they now have cots to sleep on, food, water, medical care, and the protection of law and order probably isnt what most of them would consider the book definition of events working very well for
them.
Scott McClellan, White House Press Secretary, said of Mrs. Bushs pronouncement: I think she was making a personal observation on some of the comments that people were making that she was running into.
Many interpreted the former first ladys beautiful mind remark of 2003 as displaying a similarly callous attitude towards the horrors visited upon others, especially those persons Norma Desmond of Sunset Boulevard would have termed the little people.
Barbara a touch of classist Mikkelson
LAST UPDATED: 8 September 2005
SourcesSources:
Associated Press. White House: Mrs. Bush Comment Personal.'
7 September 2005.
The New York Times. Barbara Bush Calls Evacuees Better Off.
7 September 2005 (p. A22).
Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)And she is a total sweetheart not to mention whip smart.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)riversedge
(70,441 posts)TNNurse
(6,931 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)alert until the end. I'll even miss knowing she's around, but I won't be talking about what a nice person she was. She is a strong and unboring woman with very definite good and bad facets.
In her own words describing Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton, and no doubt various others, she is a "I can't say it, but it rhymes with..." Rich for Ferraro, witch for Hillary. Bitch, the real thing, for Barbara, but an unforgettable and very redoubtable one.
I'm guessing her husband literally can't imagine life without her. This must be very hard for him.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)But what she said about other dead human beings, for which the Bush lies was responsible, is still despicable. And I wonder if she regrets it now. Never forget.
"But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him" (her husband, former president George H. W. Bush) "suffer?"
cannabis_flower
(3,769 posts)That Hurricane Katrina was working out very well for the poor underprivileged people of New Orleans and that it was scary that a lot of them would be staying in Houston permanently.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)MarcA
(2,195 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,878 posts)Former first lady Barbara Bush said that New Orleans refugees being housed in the Houston Astrodome were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
jb5150
(1,185 posts)but that really isn't saying much.
DeminPennswoods
(15,294 posts)Barbara Bush has chosen.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)I wish her peace and comfort as she nears the end, and my sympathies to her family at this stressful time.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)We don't need to white-wash these people. Their GOP loyalist will do enough of that. We need to speak the truth. And the truth about her and her spawn is not pretty.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)I think the evil is evident and now is not the time to be pointing it out. That time will come. But speaking ill of a dying old lady isnt my cup of tea.
radliberal
(51 posts)ROT IN HELL!!!
geomon666
(7,512 posts)I suppose if I believed in Hell there'd be a fair amount of people I'd wish to be rotting in there.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Satisfied? Gleeful? Superior?
I think Id feel kinda bad.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Too bad I don't believe there really is a Hell. Because I think people like the Bushes really should end up in a place like that.
She spawned W and Jeb. W, until recently, the worst President ever and Jeb, the governor who helped put W into office. Yes, she is responsible for teaching them they deserve the entitlement and privilege they have. Just think of how much better we'd be right now if none of them existed.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/working-very-well-for-them/
PJMcK
(22,068 posts)That's the nicest thing I have to say about her.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,512 posts)GreydeeThos
(958 posts)I want to hear Dick Cheney is about to expire.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)MFM008
(19,833 posts)The same thing.
COPD/ CHF.
Totally drains you
And your family.
democrank
(11,112 posts)with her family by her side.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)The last year was hard on the family and the last two weeks were agony for all.
May Barbara Bush's passing be as pain free as possible.
Delphinus
(11,847 posts)Regardless of the differences I had for her I wish her a peaceful death.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)Like Mrs Bush she was in and out of the hospital several times, until finally they recommended hospice. She would be back in the hospital after about two weeks when her numbers would go bad again.
She also had dementia, so it was mainly her doctor's and my call as her primary caretaker. But it was for the best.
Once she entered hospice she lasted just five more days and went peacefully with the help of opiates for pain.
Hekate
(91,003 posts)lapislzi
(5,762 posts)Always has.
She has never been called to account for the cruel things she has said and done.
While I don't wish ill on anyone, I will not be shedding tears for her passing.
elocs
(22,641 posts)for another human who is close to passing through death's door, something we all will do, but evidently there are those who cannot pass up a chance to make everything into a partisan political opportunity. That is sad.
sdfernando
(4,948 posts)I mean, she wouldn't want to poison her beautiful mind.