Former President
George H.W. Bush fell Wednesday while at his summer home in Kennebunkport,
Maine, breaking a vertebrae in his neck, but "it was not life
threatening," his spokesman Jim McGrath told CNN.
Bush was taken to a
hospital in nearby Portland where he is "very stable," McGrath said.
The former president
was never disoriented.
"We are not
expecting a long stay," McGrath said, though he added Bush would be
treated with a neck brace.
Bush last month just
turned 91. He revealed several years ago he suffers from a form of Parkinson's
disease, which has left him unable to walk, so he gets around either in a
wheelchair or a scooter.
He was hospitalized in
2014 after suffering a shortness of breath. In 2012, he was in the hospital for
several months after he contracted bronchitis.
Bush and his wife last week appeared at several events in Maine
with hundreds of his son Jeb's top donors to his presidential campaign.
Bush spokesman
McGrath tweeted on Wednesday evening, "41 fell at home in Maine today and
broke a bone in his neck. His condition is stable -- he is fine -- but he'll be
in a neck brace."
The Bush family tweeted their thanks and thoughts Thursday
morning.
Jenna Bush Hager
wrote: "Always touched by kindness: thanks for all of your
thoughts+prayers for our dear Gamps. We are optimistic that he will heal
well."
Former Republican
nominee Mitt Romney made an allusion to Bush's past as a U.S. Navy pilot in
World War II: "Shot down and rescued, parachuted and landed safely,
@GeorgeHWBush yesterday takes a fall. May he be victorious again, I pray."
Bush has continued
his adventurous ways, even as he cracked 90 years. Last year, to celebrate his
90th birthday, the former president went skydiving. He has
previously parachuted seven times, including for his
75th, 80th and 85th birthdays and when he was shot down in WWII.
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