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Byrd admitted to Walter Reed hospital |
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By Manu Raju
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Posted: 02/26/08 08:36 PM [ET] |
Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest serving senator in American history, has been admitted overnight to Walter Reed hospital after sustaining an injury to his back this week.
The 90-year-old Byrd’s injury is not life threatening, and he was admitted to the hospital for “observation,” according to his spokesman, Jesse Jacobs.
The senator injured his back when he fell down Monday night in his Virginia home, but arrived in the Senate Tuesday and cast votes in the morning during debate over an Indian health measure. But he missed the chamber’s afternoon procedural vote to take up a bill aimed at forcing a change on Iraq war policy.
During the day Tuesday, the senator was advised by Congress’s in-house doctor to go to the hospital for an examination on whether he broke any bones in his back. Jacobs was unsure on the diagnosis after his examination.
“They’re keeping him overnight; I’m assuming against his will.”
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