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Mitch McConnell May Be Experiencing Small Seizures, Doctors Suggest (archive.ph)

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It's funny that the NYT publishes a "doctors suggest" article on McConnell. Finally they are slowly acknowledging what we've known for a very long time. If it seems the GOP is lying - they are.

Mitch McConnell May Be Experiencing Small Seizures, Doctors Suggest

While several possibilities were suggested, including mini-strokes, doctors said that the spells appeared most consistent with focal seizures, which are electrical surges in one region of the brain.

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Neurologists said they could not rule out other possible explanations for Mr. McConnell’s episodes. Dr. Gavin Britz, a neurosurgeon at Houston Methodist, said he would want to exclude Parkinson’s disease, which can also cause freezing episodes.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope for a swift and final end to his seizures.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I hope they're debilitating and painful and take something away from him he can never get back every time, and his departure from the world is characterized by agony and involuntary erosion of his ego