President Hinckley remains hospitalized

By: Geoff J - January 31, 2006

I just saw this release at the church Web site. I know Guy Murray has covered this hospitalization and surrounding stories at his blog (here, here, and here). Any thoughts or additional insights on President Hinckley’s recent health issues?

8 Comments

  1. KSL Radio just announced that President Hinckley has been released from the hostpital.

    Comment by Jim Cobabe — January 31, 2006 @ 7:33 pm

  2. Confirming Jim’s comment, here’s a link from KUTV News with the same story.

    Comment by Guy Murray — January 31, 2006 @ 8:44 pm

  3. I don’t understand the correlation between the content of the news release and the title of this post; they seem contradictory.

    Comment by Kim Siever — February 1, 2006 @ 1:19 am

  4. I think Geoff posted just before the release and the Church website updated the link.

    Comment by D-Train — February 1, 2006 @ 1:34 am

  5. Thanks D-Train. Yeah, that link matched my headline when I posted it.

    Comment by Geoff J — February 1, 2006 @ 10:54 am

  6. I think President Hinckley’s enjoyed extremely good health thus far, and has been a vigorous leader. Joseph Fielding Smith and David O. McKay lived similarly long lives, but they were in poor health in their final years. Edward Kimball, son of President Kimball, noted recently that President Hinckley “has been the effective leader of the church” since 1981.

    Comment by Justin — February 1, 2006 @ 11:14 am

  7. Justin,

    I think Presidents Hunter and Bensen were lucid at first, albeit in poor health. I would add that the church seems to go on autopilot when we have a disable church Pres. In other words, GBH wasn’t his own man until he became church Pres officially.

    Organizational difficulties aside, not having a retirement tradition for apostles seems cruel, but that is one of my hobbies and is off-topic.

    Yery glad GBH is doing well.

    Comment by Steve EM — February 1, 2006 @ 12:44 pm

  8. I noticed in recent articles that the prophet had a pacemaker installed back in 2001 and recently announced he has diabetes. Considering his age, he’s still doing great health-wise.

    Comment by Mike — February 1, 2006 @ 6:37 pm