Former President George H.W. Bush is expected to be back home at his Kennebunkport, Maine, compound as early as this weekend,
Newsmax TV has learned.
Bush's former chief of staff John Sununu said Thursday that Bush is speedily recovering after taking a fall and breaking a vertebrae in his neck on Wednesday.
"I just got an email from some of the folks up in Kennebunkport and they said the president's fine. He's in the main hospital up in Maine. He broke a little bone in his back, the second vertebra," Sununu said Thursday on "The Steve Malzberg Show."
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"But it didn't impact his spine, it didn't impact any of his limbs and they're just going to fit him for a brace … He'll go home in a few days."
The fall occurred as Bush, 91, relaxed at his summer home on the Maine coast. Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said the former president fractured his C2 vertebrae but never lost consciousness. Nor was his spine injured,
WMTW-TV reported.
McGrath also said Bush continues to have normal use of both his hands. Doctors will let the break heal on its own, without surgery, he added.
Sununu, the former governor of New Hampshire, is author of
"The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush," published by Broadside Books.
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