Sen. John Fetterman is back home from the hospital, the Pennsylvania Democrat introduced on social media Saturday, after receiving care at a Pittsburgh hospital for a fall he suffered this week.
“20 stitches later and a full recovery, I’m back home with @giselefetterman and the kids,” Fetterman mentioned in a post on X, tagging his spouse. The put up included a photograph displaying cuts on the senator’s face, stretching from above his eyebrow to his nostril.
“I’m overwhelmed + profoundly grateful for all the well-wishes,” the senator added, occurring to thank the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Fetterman’s spokesperson mentioned Thursday the senator fell throughout a morning stroll close to his Braddock, Pennsylvania, home, and was taken to the hospital “out of an abundance of caution.”
“Upon evaluation, it was established he had a ventricular fibrillation flare-up that led to Senator Fetterman feeling light-headed, falling to the ground and hitting his face with minor injuries,” his spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.
The spokesperson added that Fetterman opted to remain within the hospital “so doctors can fine-tune his medication regimen.”
The fall marked the most recent in a collection of well being points Fetterman has confronted in recent times.
During his 2022 Senate marketing campaign, Fetterman suffered a near-fatal stroke. Fetterman’s campaign announced he had undergone the “standard procedure to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator.”
When he returned to the marketing campaign path, his speech was halting and at instances tough to observe. During an October 2022 debate in opposition to his opponent Mehmet Oz — which he describes as a turning level of when “the depression really started to set in” — he dropped phrases throughout solutions and infrequently misplaced his practice of thought.
In 2023, Fetterman obtained therapy for scientific despair after checking himself in to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He has since publicly mentioned how his robust Senate race in 2022 worsened his mental health.
Earlier this yr, present and former staffers asserted in a New York Magazine article that Fetterman had been exhibiting reckless and unstable habits, elevating questions over his health to serve.
Fetterman has usually disagreed with his own party, significantly on the difficulty of Israel’s struggle in opposition to Hamas. He additionally just lately broke with the Democratic Party throughout the federal government shutdown and repeatedly voted in favor of the GOP funding plan. Ultimately, a separate plan ended the federal government shutdown with the assistance of Fetterman and seven other centrists.