Former President Jimmy Carter Enters Hospital For Surgery

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In this Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, photo, former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga. Carter has been admitted to Emory University Hospital for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding due to his recent falls. A spokeswoman says the procedure is scheduled for Tuesday morning, Nov. 12. (AP Photo/John Amis)

ATLANTA (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was admitted to a hospital on Monday evening for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding due to his recent falls, his spokeswoman said.

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The procedure is scheduled for Tuesday morning at Emory University Hospital, Deanna Congileo said in a statement.

Carter has fallen at least three times this year, and the first incident in the spring required hip replacement surgery. He traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, and helped build a Habitat for Humanity home after getting 14 stiches following a fall on Oct. 6. And he was briefly hospitalized after fracturing his pelvis on Oct. 21. He received a dire cancer diagnosis in 2015 but survived and has since said he is cancer-free.

Nearly four decades after he left office and despite a body that’s failing after 95 years, the nation’s oldest-ever ex-president still teaches Sunday school roughly twice a month at Maranatha Baptist Church in his tiny hometown of Plains in southwest Georgia. His message is unfailingly about Jesus, not himself.

Rev. Tony Lowden, Carter’s pastor, said the ex-president was hospitalized Monday on what he called “a rough day.”

“We just need the whole country to be in prayer for him,” Lowden said in a telephone interview.

Carter is resting comfortably, and his wife, Rosalynn, is with him, Congileo said.


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Ptcha
Ptcha
4 years ago

זאל ער שטינקן פון קאפ

Educated Archy
Educated Archy
4 years ago

zul ER piguran.

Sure we heard the nonsense abutting carters egypt peace deal . Yes he did one half good thing to a country that would have made a deal anyhow after so many defeats .
Let’s look at the big picture . Carter was a disgraced president who suffered the worse loss in history as in incumbent president . He was a laughing stock . By pushing the shah out and encouraging peaceful protestors he created a nonstopable monster called the ayttollah yimach shimo. He then enabled them to make a Purim out of the USA with those hostages . This is far worse than the good done with a peace deal . And since then he has continually stabbed Israel and been a thorn to us .

May the peanut farmer pagar soon

PaulinSaudi
PaulinSaudi
4 years ago

I am sure we all wish him and his family well.

Embarrassed
Embarrassed
4 years ago

The level of ignorance here is an embarrassment. How many of you were at-risk yeshiva drop outs?!

Nachum
Nachum
4 years ago

Archy is an embarrassment to reasonable people on this board. He continuously throws out bubba meises on this site; if someone disagrees with him, he becomes vile and calls people foul names. I really don’t think that he ever learned any manners. Last, he continuously accuses me of using other screen names. I’ve told him no less than eight times that my Hebrew name is Nachum. I don’t know who Yoni is, or whomever else he accuses me of being? The only request that I have of the esteemed and distinguished Archy is that he buy himself a dictionary, in order to be able to spell properly on this site.