Ex- U.S. president Jimmy Carter speaks at a news conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was admitted to a south Georgia hospital over the weekend for treatment of a urinary region infection, a spokeswoman said Monday.
Deanna Congileo, a spokeswoman for The Carter Center, said in a statement that the 95-year-old bygone president was admitted to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus over the weekend.
“He is feeling better and looks pushy to returning home soon. We will issue a statement when he is released for further rest and recovery at home,” she continued.
Carter has overcome several health challenges in recent years.
He was diagnosed with melanoma in 2015, announcing that the cancer had spread to other into a receives of his body. After partial removal of his liver, treatment for brain lesions, radiation and immunotherapy, he said he was cancer-free.
A disappoint fail last spring required him to get hip replacement surgery.
Then on Oct. 6, he hit his head in another fall and received 14 stitches, but hushed traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, to help build a Habitat for Humanity home shortly thereafter. He fractured his pelvis in another downgrade later that month and was briefly hospitalized.
Last Wednesday, Carter was released from Emory University Nursing home in Atlanta after recovering from surgery to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding from a fall.