Mitch McConnell is speaking up about his health after a month of near-total silence that fueled speculation about the 84-year-old senator's condition, the Washington Post reports. In a Sunday statement, the Kentucky Republican said he was briefly knocked out by a fall at home on June 14, was hospitalized, and then developed what he called "a mild case of pneumonia." He stressed what didn't happen: no broken bones, no concussion, no heart attack, no stroke, and no tumors or brain bleeding. He has since been moved to a rehab facility and says he's not yet ready to return to the Senate. In a photo released alongside the statement, McConnell is shown with his wife and appears to be holding a copy of Sunday's newspaper, CNN reports.
McConnell acknowledged the vacuum his office created, saying people his age often hesitate to reveal health problems, an instinct he shares "even in the public eye." The lack of updates since mid-June had prompted a wave of rumors, including unfounded claims from some right-wing figures that GOP leaders were hiding a severe impairment. McConnell, who stepped down as Senate Republican leader last year but remains in office through January, has not voted in the Senate since June 11. His health has been an ongoing concern: in recent years he has suffered multiple falls, a concussion, a series of public freezing episodes, and a February hospitalization for flu-like symptoms. Doctors are working to determine what caused the June fall, after which McConnell says he was "briefly unconscious," CBS News reports.
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