Kennedy Going Home Tomorrow

Ted Kennedy continues to do well after today's seizure and will be released from the hospital tomorrow morning after a night of observation, the Boston Globe reports. His collapse was probably caused by “simple fatigue,” a doctor said. He is surrounded by family at a Washington hospital after being carted off in an ambulance during an inaugural lunch, at which he’d been “in a happy mood, regaling us with a few jokes,” said a table-mate.

“All of a sudden, he slumped his head like he was going into a seizure,” said Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye. Such seizures aren’t unusual in brain cancer patients, says one expert, because of abnormal brain tissue. And “stress—even happy stress, excitement,” can make seizures more likely, says another. Still, as he headed to the ambulance, he was bellowing against any help. “When he bellows," said Sen. Chris Dodd, "he's usually in pretty good shape.”
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