Jimmy Carter admitted to Emory University Hospital
The Carter Center said late Monday that former president Jimmy Carter was admitted to Emory University Hospital Monday for a procedure to “relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding due to his recent falls.”
The procedure is scheduled for Tuesday morning, the Carter Center said.
For the 95-year-old former president, this is at least his third trip to a hospital since last month.
In mid-October, he fell and fractured his pelvis. That followed an early October fall, where he bumped his head and required 14 stitches.
He made quick recoveries from both, even appearing at a Habitat for Humanity event, sporting a black eye and wearing an Atlanta Braves hat on the same night he hit his head.
On Sunday Nov. 3, he taught Sunday School at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains.
In 2015, Carter beat cancer. Doctors had found four small melanoma lesions on his brain. The discovery followed the removal of a lesion on his liver that took about 10% of the organ.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
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