HOUSTON – Former President George H.W. Bush is fighting a fever and has weathered what a family spokesman is calling "a few low energy days."
Doctors, who were hoping to release him by Christmas, changed their minds. The 88 year-old has suffered a series of setbacks, but doctors are said to be cautiously optimistic as the fever now appears to be under control.
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Bush's wife, Barbara, their son Neil and Neil's wife are visited him in the hospital.They had Chinese food from Gigi's Asian Bistro delivered.
Dinner at Gigi's on Christmas day is a Bush family tradition. The former president was hospitalized over a month ago because of a nagging, lingering cough brought on by bronchitis.
A Bush family spokesman, Jim McGrath, tells local 2 the country's 41st present remains in good spirits and that he's "determined not to get grumpy about this."