DOCTORS CONSIDER REMOVING GEORGE H.W. BUSH'S BREATHING TUBE
Source: Associated Press
Jan 20, 1:05 AM EST
BY MICHAEL GRACZYK
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON (AP) -- Doctors treating former President George H.W. Bush for pneumonia considered whether to take out a breathing tube inserted two days ago to clear his airway.
His wife, Barbara, diagnosed with bronchitis, was feeling "1,000 percent better" on Thursday after a dose of antibiotics and rest.
The 92-year-old former president and the 91-year-old former first lady both were being cared for at Houston Methodist Hospital.
Family spokesman Jim McGrath said the 41st president remained in stable condition. Bush was hospitalized on Saturday and has been in the intensive care unit since Wednesday, relying on a ventilator to breathe. Removing the tube - a procedure known as extubation - would allow Bush to breathe on his own. He was struggling to breathe when he was admitted to the hospital Saturday.
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hedda_foil
(16,371 posts)Rural_Progressive
(1,105 posts)the less likely it is they will be able to wean him off it. Lord knows I'm not a fan of anyone in that family but I do hate to have anyone suffer unnecessarily.
LeftInTX
(25,096 posts)"Your prayers are working: 41 and Mom are doing much better today and fighting on,"
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When someone is improving they just remove them from the ventilator and make an announcement later.
The fact that doctors are "deciding" doesn't fit with the W's narrative.
Who knows, maybe W doesn't want his father to overshadow Trump's inauguration.
Even in this, what most people would call a dire situation, Dumbya refers to him as "41" instead of like a normal person who would say, "My father"...
Once a jackass, always a jackass.
cstanleytech
(26,220 posts)choose the Bush jackass and ya I never thought that the Republicans would nominate and win the office of president with a human being that was worse than Bush is.
Ilsa
(61,688 posts)tried to show a little class. Donald acts like he was raised on a pirate ship. Hell, even pirates are supposed to have a code of honor.
From Supernatural:
CROWLEY: There's a reason we don't call our chits in early consumer confidence. This isn't Wall Street! This is Hell! We have a little something called integrity. This gets out, who'll deal with us?
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)sitting on the nuclear launch codes
That we have a president that makes Dubya look classy and level headed is tragic.
cstanleytech
(26,220 posts)understatement.
MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)FDT.
Coventina
(27,052 posts)MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)To say that it was a mess is an understatement.
Coventina
(27,052 posts)politicat
(9,808 posts)And neither does grief or loss. (Thanks, Lin-Manuel.)
Having just gone through the death of a very close relative, someone with whom I had extremely complicated relationship, and for whom I did a lot of grieving before her death -- when she lost abilities and memories and personality -- neither of those make it easier for those closest. And having had to enforce and interpret her end of life decisions... I don't wish that on my worse enemy, because there is no good decision.
My relative was not a good person for most of her life, but I can empathize with GHWB's family on an extremely human level right now.
Ilsa
(61,688 posts)Nostalgia for a time when a president wasn't planning our national security around Putin's five year plan.
Coventina
(27,052 posts)I may have disagreed with his policies, but at least I knew he wasn't going to make us a wholly-owned subsidiary of Putin, Inc.
Kali
(55,002 posts)or the general tendency for our side to be compassionate...but yeah I hear you.
Skittles
(153,104 posts)I've never been a great fan but I accepted him as my president
Tanuki
(14,914 posts)That said, I wish the former president the best possible outcome and hope that whatever time remains for him is peaceful, comfortable, and free of any pain or fear.
riversedge
(70,047 posts)outside of the Hospice. The whole issue was a farce and assault.
Dorian Gray
(13,479 posts)they'll go to in order to avoid today's inauguration!
NBachers
(17,080 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)is painful and uncomfortable. They don't even mention if they think he's able to breath without it. I just hope they keep him comfortable.
Vinca
(50,236 posts)My worst fear is being hooked to machines when I should be making a graceful exit. No one lives forever.
died in December after not being able to breathe. We tried one thing - after that, hospice was called and she died two days later. Tough decision to have to make, but glad it was one we had the option to do. She did not want to be hooked to a machine to live.
Vinca
(50,236 posts)Delphinus
(11,824 posts)Is going through a lot as well.
5 hospitalizations since Sept 16 for AFib.
On Tuesday she needed blood transfusions
For anemia. One thing after another.
Delphinus
(11,824 posts)Be well through this, take care of you. Good luck - I hope she finds health soon.
csziggy
(34,131 posts)She went in the hospital New Year's Eve. She was intubated on January 4th, extubated on the 9th. On the 11th the doctors admitted there was nothing more they could do and the family moved her into hospice. She lasted less than 24 hours.
I wish they had not put her through the pain and hassle of the intubation and had let her go in peace.But she was aware enough to give consent and the family felt like they needed to give her that chance. She had been in the hospital a year ago and recovered enough to have time to spend with her sisters, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Ilsa
(61,688 posts)Yet you put her needs before yours, and that says a lot about you. Peace to you.
Delphinus
(11,824 posts)My son told me he was proud of me for being strong enough to do the right thing - and every time someone tells me, You were such a good daughter, I still well up with tears. Thank you for your kindness.
Ilsa
(61,688 posts)The tube last night, just to fuck with Trump.
Ligyron
(7,615 posts)Steal some of that narcissistic, ego maniacal, puppet's thunder.
41 was a liberal in contrast to what's coming.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Wait, that was the news from two months ago. National life support has now been disconnected...
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)Percy Cholmondeley
(74 posts)I hope these medical issues don't bankrupt this family. That used to happen an awful lot. I guess it will again, as soon as the predatory Koch-owned majority in our national legislature acts out the owner's wishes. Making America great again only means great for the weathy and powerful.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)recovering.
If he died the day of Trump's inauguration, people would miss the chance to re-examine his record and see how he contributed to getting us where we are today.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)maybe the Bushes think they'll live forever b/c they're so far above it all.