Giselle Fetterman, the wife of Democratic Pennsylvania Senate nominee John Fetterman, said on Monday that her husband, who suffered a stroke last month, might not be back to campaigning until next month.
“Maybe. I think so. That’s my hope,” Giselle Fetterman told CNN when asked if her husband would return to the campaign trail by July.
She dismissed the idea that the candidate would be unable to continue campaigning against his GOP rival, Dr. Mehmet Oz.
“I don’t see that, but more importantly, his doctors don’t see that,” she said. “They are all confident he will make a full recovery.”
The candidate “deserves a month break to come back as strong as ever,” Fetterman said.
“This is going to be a tough race and a really important race,” she told CNN. “I want him to be fully ready for it.”
John Fetterman admitted himself into Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital after suffering a stroke on May 13, mere days before he won the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania Senate.
The candidate was released from the hospital a little over a week later, but his health status remained a mystery until last Friday, when his campaign released a report by his cardiologist, Dr. Ramesh Chandra.
According to Chandra, Fetterman had been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and decreased heart pump in 2017.
“The prognosis I can give for John’s heart is this: if he takes his medications, eats healthy, and exercises, he’ll be fine,” the doctor wrote. “If he does what I’ve told him, and I do believe that he is taking his recovery and his health very seriously this time, he should be able to campaign and serve in the U.S. Senate without a problem.”
Her hope is that he can be back to the campaign in another month or two? This is bad.
I’ll take being without Fetterman on the campaign trail for another month to the idea of Mehmet Oz as my Senator.
his wife is not a doctor. More telling are the doctor’s comments:
“If he does what I’ve told him, and I do believe that he is taking his recovery and his health very seriously this time, he should be able to campaign and serve in the U.S. Senate without a problem.”
Sounds like he fucked around and found out re medications/diet/exercise but should be able to turn it around if he gets religion ‘this time’.
The cardiologist says he’ll fully recover, but I’d rather hear from a doctor treating any stroke-related issues like speech impairment. One of Josh’s recent Edblogs had a worrying mention of Fetterman not recovering full use of speech yet, which is kind of important for campaigning. I don’t know how long that typically takes to recover. He’s relatively young, so I’m hoping for the best.
BTW, Fetterman just released a campaign ad on Fox News (heh). It was narrated by someone else, which isn’t encouraging, but he did say the required “I approved this message” tag at the end and sounded okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJxowuMYE1INot really. The guys recovering from a minor stroke and getting back on meds for dilated cardiomyopathy / atrial fibrillation. He’ll probably start making videos within weeks and be on the trail by mid to late July. BUT…he’s running in a race that’s all but done already. Oz will start running his mouth as if he’s speaking from expertise ( he’s not a cardiologist. He’s a lapsed cadio-thorcic surgeon ) suggesting Fetterman unfit for the job. Dick Cheney was in far worse shape…and he’s still scowling.
Fetterman vs Oz is an ideological contest. Sick or well in that vein Fetterman wins.