LANCASTER, Pa. — Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for the state’s top U.S. Senate contest, has been released from hospital after staying more than a week following a stroke, his wife and campaign said Sunday.
“João is going home – time to rest and recuperate (and be bored)! tweeted his wife, Gisele Fetterman, who was born in Brazil and often refers to her husband with the Portuguese translation of John. “I am so grateful to the amazing staff at Lancaster General for looking after him so well from start to finish. »
Fetterman said in a statement that he was returning home to Braddock and “couldn’t be happier to finally return home to be with my family.”
“I feel fine, but according to my doctor’s orders and Gisèle’s orders, I will continue to rest and recover,” he said. “Later this week I will have a follow-up visit with my doctors at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital. I’m going to take the time I need now to rest and get to 100% so I can go full throttle soon and rock that seat blue.
Fetterman, 52, had been at Lancaster General Hospital since May 13. He was scheduled to appear at a campaign event at Millersville University, but his wife “noticed that John wasn’t himself, and soon after he started blurring his speech,” a statement said. said the campaign spokesperson.
Fetterman said in a written statement that he had a stroke “which was caused by a clot from my heart being in an A-fib rhythm for too long,” but doctors were able to remove the clot “reversing stroke”, and got his heart under control. Doctors told him he “did not suffer from any cognitive damage”, he said.
