The Pennsylvania senator endangered his recovery from a stroke by coming back to the campaign trail too soon. But he has a chance to start an important national conversation, writes Ruben Navarrette Jr.
. Furthermore, this line of thinking suggests, the question of whether Fetterman can go the distance impacts all Americans because it could affect which party controls the Senate.
It seems obvious that Fetterman’s body would like to have a word. The senator admits that—since his stroke occurred in the middle of a campaign—he rushed the rehabilitation process and skipped steps that may have been necessary in order for a stroke patient to make a full recovery. Some of the damage done by the stroke was already known to the public.
And finally, I think about how the worst part of this story is the way in which Fetterman—by pretending everything was all right after his stroke—robbed America of a necessary conversation about what it means to be physically challenged. For millions of Americans, this is a fact of life. I was physically challenged for a really long time, but unlike most people who can say that, I no longer am. How long? As far back as 2010, I recall that I had a limp on the right side. Eventually, I would learn that it was my hip, and that the joint had slowly deteriorated since a car accident many years earlier. I wasn’t in pain, but my mobility was severely limited. In 2022, 12 years later, I would finally get the total hip replacement that gave me my life back.
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