Nancy Reagan ‘Is Doing Well’ after Falling

By Dan Keane
11:38, February 18th 2008
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Nancy Reagan ‘Is Doing Well’ after Falling

Former first lady Nancy Reagan was hospitalized Sunday after falling in her home in Bel-Air, her spokesperson said.

Reagan, 86-year-old, was taken to St. John’s Health Center, in Santa Monica, where doctors determined she did not break a hip as initially feared, Joanne Drake, chief of staff for the Reagan Foundation said quoted by the Associated Press.

Drake added that Reagan was in good spirits but she was expected to remain overnight for observation in the same room where former President Ronald Reagan stayed after he broke his hip at home in 2001. The Reagans were married for 52 years before his death in 2004, after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

“As a precaution, her family physicians felt it best to admit her…for overnight evaluation. She is doing well and is visiting with friends in her room,” Drake said in a statement, Reuters reported.

In 2005, Reagan slipped and fell in a London hotel room and was released after being examined at a hospital. She had a cancerous left breast removed in 1987.

Reagan’s last major public appearance was at the January 30 Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, where she sat with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger



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