Sen. Mitch McConnell launched a press release on his well being on Sunday together with a photograph of himself and his spouse, Elaine Chao, after questions swirled about his situation. McConnell stated he was “briefly unconscious” after he took a fall final month and he had been coping with a “delicate case of pneumonia.”
“You all know the way of us of my era typically hesitate to share the vulnerability that comes with rising older,” the senator stated, addressing rising questions on his well-being. “Even within the public eye, I really feel that very same intuition — I can not assist it.”
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The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican has been hospitalized since June 14, his workplace stated. On the identical day, emergency medical personnel responded to an unconscious individual at McConnell’s house, based on a public EMS dispatch name reviewed by CBS Information earlier this month.
“My docs have confirmed that I did not break any bones or endure a concussion. I did not have a coronary heart assault or a stroke. I haven’t got any tumors or hemorrhages,” McConnell stated Sunday. “However I used to be briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. Whereas receiving wonderful care over the previous a number of weeks, I’ve additionally needed to take care of a light case of pneumonia.”
His docs are attempting to determine what precipitated the incident, McConnell stated, including he is doing the whole lot they ask to hurry up his restoration.
“In actual fact, with indicators of continued progress, I have been in a position to transfer from hospital care to a rehabilitation heart the place I am going to maintain regaining my energy,” he stated.
The Republican stated his medical crew has not cleared him to return to the Senate ground to vote, however he assured that he has been working along with his workers and Senate colleagues. Senate GOP leaders stated earlier this week that they spoke with McConnell over the telephone.
“You are proper to count on your representatives to work onerous for you,” McConnell’s assertion stated. “And a part of my determination to retire on the finish of my time period this coming January was being sincere concerning the calls for of Senate work. However I nonetheless have unfinished enterprise to finish in your behalf, and I’ve each intention of ending the job you elected me to do.”
The workplace of McConnell’s attending doctor stated the senator remained hospitalized to concentrate on bodily remedy and cut back his threat of future falls.
McConnell, a childhood polio survivor, has confronted a number of well being scares lately. In a Might 19 committee listening to, he was seen with a bandage round his hand. In February, McConnell spent greater than every week within the hospital after he checked himself in for “flu-like signs.”
In 2023, he was hospitalized with a concussion after a fall and later appeared to freeze in two separate situations. He suffered minor accidents in 2024 after one other fall.
