Tim Burchett doing ‘great’ while recovering from horse kick to the rib

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said Tuesday he got “really lucky” that he only broke one rib from a horse kick last month, and the injury could have been much worse.

Burchett said on X that he was kicked by a horse on July 27, calling his rib “collateral damage” from the animal resisting a nearby fly. Since then, the lawmaker said he’s doing “great” in his recovery thanks to “quick care” from a medical center.

“And [if] it was an inch and a half higher, all y’all would be here in Knoxville at my funeral, all the people that hate me telling everybody what a great person I was,” Burchett said Tuesday on CNN. 

“And then they’d name a bridge after me, and five years later,

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