Democratic Sen. John Fetterman has returned to his home in Pennsylvania after doctors discharged him from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where they treated him for major depression that had caused him to stop eating.
The first-term Pennsylvania lawmaker was treated by a team led by Dr. David Williamson, Neuropsychiatry Chief and Medical Director. Dr. Williamson says that Mr. Fetterman’s depression is now in remission and there is no evidence of a new stroke, after a stroke nearly took his life in the midst of his successful Senate campaign last year.“I am so happy to be home. I’m excited to be the father and husband I want to be, and the senator Pennsylvania deserves.
According to the medical team, his symptoms had progressively worsened over the preceding eight weeks. Mr. Fetterman had stopped eating and drinking fluids, “causing him to develop low blood pressure, potentially affecting brain circulation.” Mr. Fetterman thanked the medical team at Walter Reed and said that depression is a treatable illness.
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