posted on X<\/a> Saturday, saying that he is in full recovery after a fall on Nov. 13. <\/p>\nFetterman fell near his home in Braddock because of a ventricular fibrillation flare-up that led to him feeling light-headed, falling to the ground and hitting his face, according to his team. <\/p>\n
He was taken to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. <\/p>\n
“If you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now,” said Fetterman after the fall. <\/p>\n
Fetterman posted on X on Saturday that he had received 20 stitches and was now at home and recovered. <\/p>\n
“I’m overwhelmed and profoundly grateful for all the well wishes,” said Fetterman. “Grateful for UPMC for the incredible medical care that put me back together.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sen. John Fetterman posted on X Saturday, saying that he is in full recovery after a fall on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22062,22068,10924,9375,11292,2724,22063,22064,22065,22069,86,13206,28,30,29,21286,16413,22067,3522,21129,22070,22066],"class_list":["post-35418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-20-stitches","tag-abundance","tag-braddock","tag-caution","tag-face","tag-fall","tag-fetterman-falls","tag-fetterman-gets-20-stitches","tag-fetterman-posts-on-x","tag-full-recovery","tag-home","tag-nov","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sen-fetterman","tag-senator-john-fetterman","tag-stitch","tag-thursday","tag-ventricular-fibrillation-flare-up","tag-wish","tag-x-saturday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}