As he recovers at home from hip-replacement surgery, former United States president George Bush is already thinking about jumping out of an airplane again.
Bush Snr plans to mark his 85th birthday in June 2009 by skydiving like he did when he turned 80.
In the meantime, the 82-year-old former president said he is doing physical therapy, walking and following doctors’ orders, the Houston Chronicle reported on Thursday.
Bush was discharged from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, on Saturday following an operation on his right hip last week, the clinic said on its website.
Surgeons at the clinic replaced his left hip in 2000. Former first lady Barbara Bush also had successful hip-replacement surgery at the clinic in 1997.
Bush has made several highly publicised skydives in the past decade, most recently in 2004 to celebrate his 80th birthday. He jumped from 4 050m and landed on a field near his library on the Texas A&M University campus.
Bush plans to travel in February to Qatar for the opening of a new engineering building at the Texas A&M campus there. He also is anticipating commissioning in November a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that bears his name. — Sapa-AP