Giuliani Hospitalized In St. Louis

Update 2: Said to be okay, still in hospital and heading back to New York after some tests.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican Rudy Giuliani planned to head home to New York City on Thursday after spending the night in a St. Louis hospital getting checked out for flu-like symptoms, his campaign said.

"After precautionary tests the doctors found nothing of concern at this time and Rudy will be going back to New York later today," communications director Katie Levinson said in a statement issued before dawn Thursday. "He is in high spirits and is grateful to the doctors and nurses who checked him out."

It was not immediately clear when he would leave the hospital.

It's said to be flu-like symptoms but there will probably be questions about this due to the way it was done. They took off, then returned almost immediately to the airport. Hopefully it's only a distraction. But it's one his campaign didn't need right now.

The former New York City mayor felt the symptoms while campaining(sic) for the Republican presidential nomination in Missouri, and they soon became worse, campaign spokeswoman Katie Levinson said. The mayor decided to go to a St. Louis hospital and spend the night there, she said.

"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 said. "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."

Update: He apparently spent the day in a car traveling cross country to to plane troubles and consulted his doctor from the plane.

When the 63-year-old finally did get back on his plane after take-off his campaign spokeswoman said he experienced flu-like symptoms. Giuliani consulted his doctor and made the decision to go to the Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis for what his campaign is calling 'routine tests.'

Comments

[joeb]

I wish him well but if he had the flu I had he is not in "high spirits". He is out of the hospital now I believe.

[Techie]

What does Kos or PuffHo have to say on the matter?