Posted on 02/17/2023 11:14:18 AM PST by Red Badger
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 15: Sen.-elect John Fetterman (D-PA) stands for a photo opportunity in Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) office at the U.S. Capitol on November 15, 2022 in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats will meet later on Tuesday for the first time since the midterm elections. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is reportedly set to miss weeks of work after checking himself into a hospital this week for severe depression.
NBC News reporter Dasha Burns tweeted, “A senior aide to Senator Fetterman tells me he will likely be in inpatient care for clinical depression for ‘a few weeks.'”
“A senior aide says it’s been difficult to distinguish the stroke from the depression – saying it’s hard to tell at times if Fetterman is ‘not hearing you, or is he sort of crippled by his depression and social anxiety,'” Burns continued. “A senior aide tells me both the staff and Fetterman himself were taken by surprise by the severe onset of depression.”
“The aide also says this hasn’t compromised his ability to do the job going forward, and he will be back to work once he has taken care of his mental health,” Burns added.
Fetterman’s office revealed Thursday that the freshman senator checked himself into a hospital on Wednesday night for mental health issues.
The statement said that the decision to check Fetterman into the hospital came after the attending physician of the United States Congress recommended that he do so.
“Last night, Senator John Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to receive treatment for clinical depression,” his office said. “While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks.”
“On Monday, John was evaluated by Dr. Brian P. Monahan, the Attending Physician of the United States Congress,” the statement said. “Yesterday, Dr. Monahan recommended inpatient care at Walter Reed. John agreed, and he is receiving treatment on a voluntary basis.”
The New York Times reported late last week that Fetterman was struggling with “serious mental health” issues and often cannot understand the words that others are saying to him following the stroke that nearly killed him last year.
The report said that Fetterman’s struggles are significantly worse when he is under any kind of stress.
Fetterman has indicated that when he’s under stress, people’s voices become muffled, the report said.
The report comes following Fetterman’s hospitalization last week after feeling lightheaded at a Democrat Senate retreat.
Fetterman’s staff claimed that doctors said that he did not have another stroke and that they were checking for signs of seizures.
The report noted that the stroke last year has taken a “very real psychological toll” on him and that he has “had to come to terms with the fact that he may have set himself back permanently by not taking the recommended amount of rest during the campaign.”
Fetterman’s office released a statement last Friday claiming that medical tests from the health episode came back negative.
“A few minutes ago, Senator John Fetterman was discharged from The George Washington University Hospital,” the statement said. “In addition to the CT, CTA, and MRI tests ruling out a stroke, his EEG test results came back normal, with no evidence of seizures.”
what do you call a retarded person who suffers brain damage from a stroke? a Fetterman!
LMAO
Not capable of performing his duties.
Nice move PA.
Lets’s see if Shapiro has the Juevos to do anything.
Maybe he wants to get away from his ambitious wife who probably pushed him too soon after his stroke.
Looks like Kamala might have to stay close to DC to break Senate ties...
She wants the job.......................
In 2022 He himself knew he wasn’t well. His family knew he wasn’t well. The Democrats of PA knew he wasn’t well. Americans who paid attention knew he wasn’t well. It was obvious to all.
They all lied to the world. And with the help of fraud, made this freak a US Senator.
Zero sympathy
Um, it's not that simple.
“Not capable of performing his duties”
That was the plan all along......watch what happens next
Who wouldn’t? Being a US Senator is a license to steal.
Legally, what can the Governor do about it? The Senate is a Federal office.
The party will talk Fetterman (or his wife) into resigning, so Shapiro can appoint . . . Fetterman’s wife.
Don’t worry, Oz can win in November. Oh wait.. never mind.
No matter.....all the democrats need is a body with a pulse to press the vote button......assistance provided of course.
He won by fraud.
Lets’s see if Shapiro has the Juevos to do anything.
Good job Penn state Repubs. Now he is going to resign and the birthplace of the Constitution will have his Brazilian illegal alien wife for a US Senator. And the city it was written in is almost impossible to walk through without being murdered.
Doubttful, she doesn't have any party earned juice and paid no dues.
Is there a process for replacing an incapacitated senator?
If Fetterman resigned then Shapiro would select a replacement. But if he’s in the hospital long term, but not resigning, that is where I don’t know if Shapiro can do anything.
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