Republican North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer is recovering after struggling a concussion, seizure and mind bleeding as the results of smacking his head on ice.
Cramer, 64, stated in a Fb submit that he slipped on ice at his residence in Bismarck on Sunday, then fell and hit his head, which knocked him unconsciousness.
“While walking on the hill down to the dock, I stepped on ice and evidently fell hard, hitting the back of my head,” he wrote. “I do not remember anything from the fall until arriving at Sanford Health emergency room.”
After present process quite a few assessments and a CT scan, the senator stated he was “diagnosed with a severe concussion, a seizure and a slight brain bleed.” His accidents required staples to maintain the injuries from “oozing” out.
His Fb submit included a photograph of blood smeared on snow and one other of two staples in his laceration.
Cramer stated on Tuesday that he was taking anti-seizure medicine and that his “head still hurts a bit.” His docs have instructed him to relaxation some time longer earlier than returning to work in Washington, D.C.
“I do not know exactly when that will happen,” he stated. “It will be day-to-day this week, but I am ready to return quickly if events require it.”
Earlier this month, Sen. Mitch McConnell fell twice within the Capitol and left the constructing in a wheelchair.
Cramer has served as a senator for North Dakota since 2019, and was reelected in November. Almost two months later, his grownup son Ian Cramer was sentenced to twenty-eight years in jail for a automobile crash that killed a sheriff’s deputy after he fled from a hospital the place he’d been taken for psychological well being issues.
