Democrat Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut is in the hospital after suffering a stroke.
According to Murphy’s office, the 53-year-old Democrat was taken to a hospital on Saturday after experiencing numbness in his arm at his son’s hockey game.
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Following confirmation that he had indeed suffered a stroke, Murphy was transferred to Johns Hopkins Medicine for “further monitoring.”
A stroke, also known as a “brain attack,” can leave a victim with permanent brain damage. Nearly 800,000 people suffer a stroke every year in the U.S. where it is a leading cause of serious long-term disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The senator’s office claimed on Sunday that “the doctors are encouraged by his progress,
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