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Senator Warner Statement: Medical Update
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I have advised the Senate Leadership that I will be necessarily absent from the Senate for the balance of this week. This evening, were I able to be present for the vote on the President’s veto of the Medicare bill, I would have voted to override.Following consultation and discussion with my physicians, including the Capitol Physician’s Office, I made the decision earlier this summer to treat my atrial fibrillation with a pacemaker, and made arrangements for scheduled admission to Inova Fairfax Hospital. Colleagues will recall that last fall, I was treated for this common condition.This past Saturday doctors implanted a pacemaker, and consistent with the success of the routine procedure, I was released the following day. This morning I came to the Capitol, handled planned morning appointments, and voted on the floor of the Senate. During a follow-up visit this afternoon, the Capitol Physician’s Office and my private doctors made the decision to schedule a re-admission to Inova Fairfax Hospital where they will perform a second procedure to adjust the pacemaker, and will keep me for observation.
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