95-year-old former US President Jimmy Carter has been admitted to a hospital again for brain surgery, according to his spokesperson.
Deanna Congileo said in a statement that the procedure to relieve the pressure on his brain is scheduled at Emory University Hospital.
The former president has fallen at least three times the past year, The Guardian reported.
His first fall required him to undergo hip surgery, and another incident on October 6 required him to get 14 stitches. But despite that, Mr. Cater still made it to Tennessee and helped build a Habitat for Humanity home.
On October 21, the ex-POTUS was briefly hospitalized after fracturing his pelvis.
In 2015, Mr. Carter was diagnosed with cancer and didn’t expect to win against the disease. He said at that time: “I just thought I had a few weeks left, but I was surprisingly at ease.
“I’ve had a full life, I have thousands of friends … so I was surprisingly at ease, much more so than my wife was.”
During a church service in Georgia, he said: “I assumed, naturally, that I was going to die very quickly. I obviously prayed about it. I didn’t ask God to let me live, but I asked God to give me a proper attitude toward death.
“And I found that I was absolutely and completely at ease with death. It didn’t really matter to me whether I died or lived. Except I was going to miss my family, and miss the work at the Carter Center and miss teaching your Sunday school service sometimes and so forth. All those delightful things.”
As soon as he beat cancer, Mr. Carter and his wife, Rosalyn, continued working with the Habitat.
It has been four decades since he left office but he has been dedicating his life to humanitarian work. This year alone, he and his wife helped build 21 homes in Tennessee.
Get well soon, Mr. Carter!
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