In fact, I am planning my 95th birthday party for next summer and hope you’ll come,” he said. “I’ve made no bones that I have considered myself on borrowed time for 20 years and we each know that all this fun has to end at some point. He said the end of his life “won’t be anytime soon.” The former governor rejected the notion that “hospice means I’m dying,” contending that his decision to enter the medical care was “simply a matter of good and convenient care that is less trouble for everybody.” “But since I have been in and out of hospitals in recent years with pneumonia and other respiratory problems, causing a lot of people a lot of trouble, I have decided to retain the services of qualified hospice doctors and nurses at home,” Edwin Edwards said in the statement. Elizabeth performed a battery of tests on the former governor, including X-rays and a CAT scan of both lungs, but the tests did not reveal anything. Governor Edwin Edwards, 93, has placed himself in home hospice care following a hospital visit over the weekend.ĮWE says “while people assume that hospice means I’m dying, I assure everyone it’s simply a matter of good and convenient care.” /ZXcmXoluYHĮdwin and Trina Edwards said physicians at St. Edwin Edwards (D) said Tuesday he has placed himself in home hospice care after being transported to the hospital in an ambulance on Sunday due to significant pain in his right lung.Įdwards, 93, had low blood oxygen and blood pressure, and later made the decision to place himself in hospice care, according to a joint statement from Edwards and his wife.

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