Former President Jimmy Carter has been released from a Georgia hospital after hip replacement surgery.
A spokeswoman for Carter says former first lady Rosalynn Carter also was hospitalized Wednesday in Americus after feeling faint but was discharged Thursday along with her husband.
The 94-year-old former president injured his hip earlier this week when he fell at his home before a planned turkey hunt. He and the 91-year-old former first lady will continue recuperating at home. The former president also will undergo physical therapy.
Jimmy Carter plans to teach Sunday School this weekend at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains.
Earlier this year, Carter became the longest-lived president in U.S. history.
Jimmy Carter disclosed in 2015 that cancer that had been discovered on his liver and had also been found on his brain. He received treatment for seven months until scans showed no sign of the disease.
At the time he revealed the cancer, he said he felt "perfectly at ease with whatever comes.
"I've had a wonderful life," he said. "I've had thousands of friends, I've had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence." (AP)
The Carter Center on President Carter's Health released the statement:
While leaving to go turkey hunting this morning, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter fell at his home in Plains, Georgia. He is recovering comfortably from surgery to repair a broken hip at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia. His surgeon stated that the surgery was successful. His wife, Rosalynn, is with him.
President Carter said his main concern is that turkey season ends this week, and he has not reached his limit. He hopes the State of Georgia will allow him to rollover the unused limit to next year.
