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Rudy Giuliani Released From Hospital
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ABC News' Jennifer Parker and Jan Simmonds Report: Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani waved to news cameras as he walked out of a St. Louis, Missouri hospital Thursday afternoon after spending the night in hospital complaining of a severe headache and flulike symptoms.
As Giuliani left he thanked the hospital and said, "I feel fine."
The Giuliani campaign released few specific details about Giuliani's medical condition.
"Mayor Giuliani is being released from Barnes Jewish Hospital with a clean bill of health," Giuliani Campaign communications director Katie Levinson said in a written statement released Thursday afternoon.
"Doctors performed a series of precautionary tests and the results of all the tests were normal. The Mayor is heading back to New York this afternoon and he continues to be in high spirits," she said.
Giuliani checked himself into and stayed overnight at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri Wednesday evening and stayed until late Thursday afternoon, sparking questions about the status of his condition.
"We've had a lot of calls and a lot of questions about my husband," Judith Giuliani told reporters camped outside her New York home.
"Rudy is in very good health," she said. "The decision was made last night when he had a severe headache and flulike symptoms on his way home from Missouri to land the plane."
Judith Giuliani said her husband then checked himself into a hospital in St. Louis Wednesday night.
"I spent most of the night on the telephone with the doctors and the wonderful nurses at Barnes Jewish Hospital and they assured me that Rudy is in very good health," she said.
Giuliani appeared a little worn out at his final event of the day on Wednesday in Chesterfield, Missouri, but he made no mention about feeling under the weather at the time.
The Associated Press reported Giuliani had felt the symptoms while campaigning throughout the day in Missouri but only decided to go to a hospital when they worsened during the evening.
"The symptoms worsened as the day wore on and shortly after taking off from Chesterfield, Missouri, for New York the mayor became uncomfortable enough that our plane returned to the airport in Chesterfield," Levinson told the AP. "To be on the safe side, the mayor consulted with his personal physician in New York and made the decision to go to the Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis for routine tests."
The Republican presidential candidate had a long day of campaigning on Wednesday, made only longer when his charter plane was grounded by mechanical problems after his first events of the day in Kansas City.
In 2000, Giuliani dropped out of the New York Senate race against Hillary Clinton after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, but he has maintained since then that he is in good health.
The hospital visit comes as his lead in national polls has been shrinking lately. The former mayor is not counting on winning Iowa or New Hampshire -- the first voting states, but has instead focused his campaign on winning the Jan. 29 Florida primary and then a number of big states that will be holding Super Tuesday primaries on Feb. 5.
Giuliani had no scheduled public appearances on Thursday and is next expected to be on the campaign trail on Friday in New Hampshire for a three day swing before the Christmas holiday.
ABC News' Michael Kreisel and Justin Anderson contributed to this report.
December 20, 2007 in Dodd, Chris, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (17)
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Nothing can make me believe this wasn't a publicity stunt to get his name back in the news.
Posted by: ac | Dec 20, 2007 3:14:29 PM
Quick... someone alert the RON PAUL paparazzi! We need to wish him well at the Hospital exit!
Posted by: Uniblogger | Dec 20, 2007 3:22:27 PM
Poor Rudy. My grandmother is in the hospital too. She will be getting out soon. Just thought you all would like to know. Just like Rudy. Poor Rudy.
Posted by: a2 | Dec 20, 2007 3:23:40 PM
This man is running to be the next President of the United States and a Flu sends him to the hospital? Next President of the United States he is not.
Posted by: Trini - 32 | Dec 20, 2007 3:30:33 PM
I think this should be taken as an indicator that he may be looking to weasel out of this considering he's not the noisemaker his competitors are becoming these days...
Posted by: Andre | Dec 20, 2007 3:39:12 PM
Had to check himself into the hospital due to headaches and "flu-like symptoms"? He'd fall apart as president. What a freaking wimp!
Posted by: bc | Dec 20, 2007 3:40:54 PM
Afterall - it is Flu season and he is a person....as many people are getting the flu and colds now. Why does everything have to be construed as some type of political stunt? Give me a break!
Posted by: Vicki | Dec 20, 2007 3:46:27 PM
I wonder if poor Rudy sat in the ER waiting room for 4 hours with all the illegal aliens or if he was rused in ahead of everyone else who had been waiting forever with legitimate medical emergencies? NONE of these candidates - republican or democrat - are worth wasting the time to go vote for.
Posted by: ac | Dec 20, 2007 4:04:21 PM
If a man is willing to cheat on his wife, then what is stopping from cheating on his constituents? And who wants a homewrecker for a First Lady? Not me!
Posted by: Paula | Dec 20, 2007 4:24:03 PM
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Perhaps Rudy has had a bad case of the Rush Limbaugh disease - OxyContin overdose.
For those of you NOT in the know, Rudy represented the maker of OxyContin and worked hard to spread its use - especially to people who needed an escape from reality, like Rush.
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Posted by: ALEX H. | Dec 20, 2007 5:32:47 PM
What some of these candidates won't do to
get their names in the news!!!!!! We don't
really care Rudy!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO RON PAUL.
Posted by: Joe | Dec 20, 2007 5:42:43 PM
Rule #1: Young men die in war.
Rule #2: Doctors cannot change rule #1.
Posted by: threeriverscrossing | Dec 20, 2007 6:53:48 PM
Paula, so you preferred a lying cheat like Clinton in the office? Reagan was also in his second marriage with "the other woman". Let's talk about Kennedy too...You weren't in the Giuliani bedroom (s), so you don't know exactly what went on.
Posted by: cbeargal | Dec 20, 2007 8:05:41 PM
Last I heard the flu can be deadly...better be safe than sorry especially the very young and old.
Posted by: cbeargal | Dec 20, 2007 8:10:56 PM
I went to a Rudi event and a Ron Paul rally broke out.....put Rudi in the can and throw away the key!
Posted by: shawn | Dec 21, 2007 3:25:16 AM
Rudi had an approval rating of I believe 18% right before the September 11th attacks. However, he put his arm around a fireman and yelled on a bullhorn and now somehow he has become a viable candidate. As a country, have we really lowered our standards that much to possibly elect a person like this for the most prestigious job in the world? How pathetic we have become.
Posted by: Allen1120 | Dec 21, 2007 9:00:47 AM
Shucks, the Republicans have such a sorry bunch of losers this time around.
Lessee, the Ganster Mayor, the "Brylcreem Narcissus",
a couple of fossils, Alan Keyes
and RON PAUL! I suspect a lot of the enthusiasm for RP is the hope that he will be pro pot!
Posted by: Patches | Dec 21, 2007 10:34:46 AM
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