(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A lump that Sen. John Fetterman, D-PA, used to have on the back of his neck is no longer there anymore.
Last year, before the midterm elections, Fox News host Tucker Carlson highlighted the bump on Fetterman’s neck and noted that Fetterman, instead of contacting a doctor, decided to continue his campaign while covering the bump by wearing hoodies, scarves and neck gaiters to conceal it, according to the Daily Wire.
Photos on Getty Images show the last time when the bump was visible was in mid-November after Fetterman beat Republican challenger Dr. Mehmet Oz.
This week, Fetterman was hospitalized while attending a Democrat Senate retreat because he wasn’t feeling very well, a health scare that happened less than a year after he suffered a stroke that nearly killed him.
Fetterman has been left with “serious mental health” issues and often cannot understand the words that others are saying to him as a result of the stroke, the New York Times reported. To do everything as a senator, he needed to use live audio-to-text transcriptions.
The report says Fetterman struggles even more under any kind of stress.
Fetterman himself said that when is under stress, trying to understand what other people are saying is like “trying to make out the muffled voice of the teacher in the ‘Peanuts’ cartoon, whose words could never be deciphered,” according to the report.
After he was hospitalized this week, Fetterman’s staff claimed that doctors said that the senator did not have another stroke and that they were checking for signs of seizures.
“A few minutes ago, Senator John Fetterman was discharged from The George Washington University Hospital,” according to the statement. “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.”
“John is looking forward to spending some time with his family and returning to the Senate on Monday.”
