Sen. Kennedy Stable After Seizure

Edward Kennedy’s primary care physician said the senator is “not in any immediate danger” after suffering a seizure at his Cape Cod home Saturday.

Dr. Larry Ronan said preliminary tests showed the 76-year-old Massachusetts Democrat has not suffered a stroke. Ronan said Kennedy was resting comfortably and would undergo further evaluation to determine the cause of the seizure.

Kennedy was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital on Saturday morning after being taken by ambulance from his home to Cape Cod Hospital.

“Senator Kennedy is resting comfortably, and it is unlikely we will know anything more for the next 48 hours,” his spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said.

Kennedy’s wife, Victoria, his children and niece Caroline Kennedy were among those with him at the hospital.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, speaking at the Nevada Democratic Convention in Reno, said he spoke to Kennedy’s wife Saturday afternoon and was told “his condition is not life-threatening, but serious.”

“But the one thing I can say, if there ever was a fighter, anyone who stood for what we as Americans, we as Democrats, stand for, it’s Ted Kennedy,” Reid said.

Kennedy went to Cape Cod Hospital “after feeling ill at his home,” Cutter said. After discussion with his doctors in Boston, Kennedy was taken to Massachusetts General.

Source: MSNBC.

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