PITTSBURGH — Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the front-runner for his party's nomination in this year's crucial U.S. Senate election, suffered a stroke late last week and is on his way to "a full recovery," he said in a statement Sunday.
Fetterman, 52, said in a statement through his campaign that he hadn't been feeling well on Friday, went to a hospital in Lancaster to get checked out and was told he "had a stroke that was caused by a clot from my heart being in an (atrial fibrillation) rhythm for too long."
Atrial fibrillation is “an irregular, often very fast heart beat,” according to the Mayo Clinic. He said his wife, Gisele, spotted the symptoms and got him to the hospital "within minutes."
