BARBARA BUSH FAILING

Former first lady Barbara Bush, who is 92, is in “failing health” and won’t seek additional medical treatment, Mrs. Bush, has been treated for decades for Graves’ disease, which is a thyroid condition, she had heart surgery in 2009 for a narrowing of her main heart valve and was hospitalized a year before that for a perforated ulcer. She married George H.W. Bush in 1945, and have been married longer than any presidential couple in American history. Her 93-year-old husband, the nation’s 41st president who served from 1989 to 1993, also has had health issues in recent years and uses a motorized scooter or a wheelchair for mobility.