Jimmy Carter Health Update: All The Times 'Oldest US President Alive' Got Sick In 2019

2019 has been a rather stressful year— on the health front— for former U.S President Jimmy Carter. The 95-year-old democrat spent ample amounts of time checking-in and out of clinics and specialty hospitals. Carter, who recently underwent surgery in October to relieve pressure on his brain from the profuse bleeding owing to a recent fall, seems to have contracted another ailment yet again.

Carter was admitted to Phoebe Sumter Medical Centre in Americus, Georgia, over the weekend to seek treatment, as he suffered from urinary tract infection. Last Wednesday, he was released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after recovering from surgery to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding from a fall.

While doctors are certain that a speedy recovery will occur at the earliest, let’s also not forget this subsequent incident sprouted soon after Carter's accident last month.

On October 6, news surfaced about the former U.S president and Nobel prize-winning humanitarian having hit his head in another fall, which required him to receive 14 stitches. Carter’s indomitable spirit was lauded after the oldest living President in the U.S history traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, to help build a Habitat for Humanity home shortly thereafter.

He fractured his pelvis in another fall later that month, owing to which he was briefly hospitalized. The injury egged him on to contemplate over his own mortality. It was also reported that a fall last spring demanded him to undergo a hip replacement surgery.

Despite the shortcomings and history of illnesses, Carter is irrefutably a fighter and had stated that the fear of death evades him. Carter, who took the mantle from George H.W. Bush as the longest-lived US president in history this spring made a very interesting statement.

“Assumed, naturally, that I was going to die very quickly,” he said of his 2015 cancer diagnosis. “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,” he added.