[Henchster]

"Reported as a complication from chemo."

They initially said it was from surgery to repair a small tear in his Achilles tendon. Did they dump that story as not sexy or sympathetic enough?

[COUNTrecount]

Sen. John McCain was hospitalized over the weekend after he suffered a “minor tear” of his Achilles tendon and side effects from his cancer therapy, his office said in a statement.

"Senator McCain was treated at Walter Reed Medical Center over the weekend for a minor tear in his right Achilles tendon, as well as for other normal and non-life-threatening side effects of cancer therapy,” his office said in a statement on Monday.

The Achilles tear was lumped in to the other reasons he was hospitalized,who knows what the truth really is.