Sen. Kennedy Awaits Test Results After Seizure

SelectPlusSen. Kennedy Awaits Test Results After SeizureSen. Kennedy Awaits Test Results After SeizureThe Associated PressMassachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy remains in the hospital, awaiting test results that could explain why the 76 year old Democrat suffered a seizure a day earlier. (May 18)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] IT'S BEEN A QUIET BUT PEACEFUL DAY HERE AT MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, WHERE SENATOR TEDKENNEDY SPENT THE LAST DAY AND A HALF AFTER SUFFERING A SEIZURE SATURDAY MORNING...HISDAUGHTER KARA KENNEDY-ALLEN LEFT THE HOSPITAL WITHOUT SAYING A WORD...AND HIS NEPHEW JOEKENNEDY WHO SHOWED UP FOR A VISIT GAVE REPORTERS A THUMBS UP WHEN ASKED HOW HIS UNCLE WASFEELING.....AS DOCTORS SCRAMBLE TO DETERMINE WHAT CAUSED KENNEDY'S ILLNESS, INITIAL TEST RESULTS RULEDOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A STROKE AS WAS FIRST SUSPECTED...(SOT: DR. MARC SCHLOSBERG/WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER NEUROLOGIST: "GIVEN THAT HE IS LOOKING PRETTY GOOD AT THIS POINT...I THINK IT'S UNLIKELY HE'S HAD A STROKE. IT'S POSSIBLE THAT HE COULD HAVE HAD A VERY SMALL AND UNTIL NOWUNNOTICEABLE A-SYMPTOMATIC STROKE THAT COULD HAVE OCCURED A YEAR AGO OR MORE.")THE MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR UNDERWENT SURGERY LAST OCTOBER TO REPAIR SEVERE BLOCKAGE IN AMAJOR NECK ARTERY IN EFFORTS TO PREVENT A STROKE...ACCORDING TO DOCTORS THERE ARE MULTIPLECAUSES FOR SEIZURES INCLUDING BRAIN TUMORS, CERTAIN MEDICATIONS, AND POSSIBLY EVEN A STROKE(SOT DR. SCHLOSBERG) "IT OFTEN MEANS THERE'S SOMETHING IRRITATING THE CEREBRAL CORTEXOR THE OUTERPORTION OF THE BRAIN. AND THAT SOMETHING COULD BE A STROKE."THE 76-YEAR-OLD FELL ILL AT HIS HOME AT THE KENNEDY COMPOUND SATURDAY MORNING AND WASHELICOPTERED TO MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SEIZURE....ALONG WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS, SENATOR JOHN KERRY VISITED KENNEDY IN THE HOSPITALTWICE....FELLOW POLITICIANS HARRY REID , AND REPUBLICANS JOHN MCCAIN AND MITT ROMNEY ALSOEXPRESSED THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE SENATOR AND WISHED HIM FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERYKENNEDY IS THE SECOND LONGEST RUNNING SENATOR AND THE LONE SURVIVING SON OF THE FAMEDKENNEDY FAMILY.(STANDUP CLOSE) DOCTORS RAN A SERIES OF TESTS ON THE SENATOR SATURDAY BUT IT WON'T BE UNTIL AT LEAST MONDAY MORNING BEFORE WE KNOW THE RESULTS OF THOSE TESTS....HE'S EXPECTED TO STAY HERE ANOTHER NIGHT WHILE DOCTORS CONTINUE TO MONITOR HIM...IN BOSTON BONNY GHOSH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS... ___ ___, The Associated Press.

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[nouse4dogooders]

his last words were....what do you mean there is a two drink limit!!!!!!!

[Seattlekid8]

OMG he just had another one!!!!!

[timm9]

His eldest brother, Joseph, was killed in a World War II airplane crash. President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and his brother Robert was assassinated in 1968.

Average survival can range from less than a year for very advanced and aggressive types - such as glioblastomas - or to about five years for different types that are slower growing.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin lead to death.

[bigkyle07]

who cares? why report this?

Why not report about how he is a killer?