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| ND: GOP Senator Suffers Brain Bleed & Concussion After Slipping On Ice |
| 2025-02-26 |
| [IndependentJournalReview] Republican North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer suffered a brain injury Sunday afternoon after slipping on ice in the backyard of his North Dakota home. Cramer, 64, said he was hospitalized and diagnosed with a “severe concussion, a seizure and a slight brain bleed” in a statement posted to Facebook Monday evening. He said he did not know when he plans to return to Washingto, D.C., but that he could return quickly for a critical vote if necessary. “Late yesterday afternoon, I walked to my backyard intending to retrieve a piece of conduit which came off my dock and was laying on the ice,” Cramer wrote. “While walking on the hill down to the dock, I stepped on ice and evidently fell hard, hitting the back of my head. I do not remember anything from the fall until arriving at Sanford Health emergency room with [wife] Kris. After seeing the emergency doctor, taking some tests, including a CT Scan, and seeing a neurologist, I was diagnosed with a severe concussion, a seizure, and a slight brain bleed.” “The wound on my head wouldn’t stop oozing, so the doctor punched a couple of staples on the laceration and admitted me,” Cramer said. “I had a good night sleep before getting a second CT Scan. I am better today with only a slight brain bleed and pretty bad headaches. Doctors prefer I rest a little longer before returning to DC, so I do not know exactly when that will happen. It will be da y to day this week, but I am ready to return quickly if events require it.” A spokesperson for Cramer told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the senator is recovering at home. The Senate is slated to confirm additional Trump nominees this week, including Army Secretary nominee Daniel Driscoll and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. Given Senate Republicans’ 53-seat majority, Senate GOP leadership will still have enough votes to confirm the president’s nominees despite Cramer’s likely absence. Cramer is serving in his second Senate term and is a member of several prominent Senate committees, including the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee. Related: Kevin Cramer 01/15/2025 Summarizing the Confirmation Hearings, Day 1: Trump’s defense secretary pick: ‘I support Israel killing every last member of Hamas’ Kevin Cramer 12/07/2024 Ernst Under Heat, Denies She''s Behind Campaign to Tank Hegseth''s Nomination Kevin Cramer 11/23/2024 'Conveyor belt of radicals': GOP slammed over Senate absences that helped Biden score more judges in lame duck |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #2 FYI, anyone over 60 who takes a hard knock to the head like Cramer's should get a brain scan even without many symptoms afterwards. It is the best way to identify bleeding in & around the brain. That bleeding can result in symptoms resembling a run of the mill stroke, symptoms can start with the fall or develop days later. Treatment of posttraumatic brain bleeding can differ greatly from bleeding due to other causes, and needs to be found ASAP. I lost my grandmother to a posttraumatic bleed misdiagnosed as a stroke. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-02-26 19:42 |
| #1 Guess TBIs are getting popular. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-02-26 12:31 |