{"id":40979,"date":"2025-11-16T01:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40979\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T01:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:51:10","slug":"john-fetterman-shares-photo-of-bloodied-face-as-hes-released-from-hospital-after-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/40979\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fetterman shares photo of bloodied face as he’s released from hospital after fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) released a graphic photograph of his face covered in dried blood as he announced Saturday he was released from the hospital following a serious fall<\/a> that left with nearly two dozen stitches.<\/p>\n

\u201c20 stitches later and a full recovery, I\u2019m back home with @giselefetterman and the kids,\u201d Fetterman, 56, wrote in a post to X.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m overwhelmed + profoundly grateful for all the well-wishes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JohnSen. John Fetterman released a photo of his bruised face after a fall Thursday. x\/SenFettermanPA<\/p>\n

The Democratic senator shared a gnarly photo of his face covered in scabs with dried blood spanning from the bottom corner of his right eye, over his eyebrow and down his nose.<\/p>\n

Fetterman was hospitalized Thursday \u201cout of an abundance of caution\u201d after falling on his morning walk in Braddock, Pa, according to a campaign spokesman.<\/p>\n

He was diagnosed with a \u201cventricular fibrillation flare-up,\u201d which is a potentially fatal condition where an irregular heartbeat causes blood not to be pumped correctly.<\/p>\n

The Keystone State pol was treated at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and reported feeling \u201clightheaded\u201d after the fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!\u201d Fetterman joked in a statement Thursday. <\/p>\n

\"JohnFetterman says he made a \u201cfull recovery.\u201d Ron Sachs \u2013 CNP<\/p>\n

The Keystone State pol was treated at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and reported feeling \u201clightheaded\u201d after the fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrateful for @UPMC for the incredible medical care that put me back together. THANK YOU SO MUCH. See you back in DC,\u201d he wrote Saturday.<\/p>\n

Fetterman \u2014 who frequently clashes with his party<\/a> \u2014 suffered a stroke during his 2022 Senate campaign that rendered him with ongoing communication difficulties.<\/p>\n

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The stroke left him with lingering auditory process impairment issues, but he has made substantial progress over the last three years. He also spent six weeks at Walter Reed Medical Center hospitalized for depression<\/a> in 2023, early in his Senate term.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred just two days into the media tour for his memoir \u201cUnfettered,\u201d which went in depth about his health problems and experience in Pennsylvania and DC politics.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania Democrat revealed the cause of his ongoing feud with Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro, and confessed he once called him a \u201cf\u2013king a\u2013hole.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two had clashed during a 2020 Zoom hearing focused on commuting the sentences of two brothers convicted of murder while Fetterman served as lieutenant governor and Shapiro was governor.<\/p>\n

Shapiro, he wrote, delivered a \u201cvery long-winded and unnecessary\u201d before voting against commuting the sentences \u2014 which Fetterman favored \u2014 enraging the Democrat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) released a graphic photograph of his face covered in dried blood as he announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23665,11995,9,11,10,2137,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-40979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-falls","9":"tag-john-fetterman","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-politicians","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}