BTW, how is Tim Johnson doing? Is he in fact recovering or is that just wishful thinking on Harry "The Body" Reid's part?
SIOUX FALLS — A series of tests early this week may indicate the kind of recovery that U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson could face as he emerges from a lengthy sedation after emergency brain surgery.
“Physical therapy will be a part of the process. As to what level, it will really take these next tests to figure that out. We’ll know a lot more in the next couple of days,” Julianne Fisher, a Johnson spokeswoman, said over the weekend.
Johnson, D-S.D., was hospitalized Dec. 13 for bleeding in the brain.
A brain hemorrhage left Johnson with a pronounced weakness on one side. Surgery relieved pressure on his brain that was caused by the escape of blood and stabilized the circulatory defect that caused the bleeding.
Doctors at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C, will try to assess Johnson’s cognitive and physical abilities this week.
Doctors believe Johnson is improving and are optimistic, Fisher said.
“He’s doing well. It’s like a waking-up process,” she said. “The doctors tell us things are heading in the right direction.”
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