Post by ideamark on Jul 13, 2006 18:24:28 GMT -5
Heard this on the CBS Evening News. As you may remember, Hastert was once a wrestler and a high school wrestling coach
www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Jul13/0,4670,Hastert,00.html
Hastert Hospitalized for Skin Infection
Thursday, July 13, 2006
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Dennis Hastert was hospitalized Thursday for treatment of a bacterial skin infection.
Hastert was expected to be treated with intravenous antibiotics at Bethesda Naval Hospital in suburban Maryland through the weekend, according to his spokesman Ron Bonjean.
Hastert, 64, discovered the infection on his lower left leg and applied a topical ointment. After a few days, Hastert's doctor examined the infection at Bethesda and diagnosed it as cellulitis, a skin infection that appears as a swollen, red area that feels hot and tender, and that can spread rapidly without treatment, the spokesman said.
Hastert is a 10-term congressman from Yorkville, Ill., in Chicago's suburbs. He has been speaker since 1999, succeeding Newt Gingrich of Georgia, who was the first Republican speaker in four decades. Recently, Hastert's tenure became the longest of any Republican speaker.
www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Jul13/0,4670,Hastert,00.html
Hastert Hospitalized for Skin Infection
Thursday, July 13, 2006
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Dennis Hastert was hospitalized Thursday for treatment of a bacterial skin infection.
Hastert was expected to be treated with intravenous antibiotics at Bethesda Naval Hospital in suburban Maryland through the weekend, according to his spokesman Ron Bonjean.
Hastert, 64, discovered the infection on his lower left leg and applied a topical ointment. After a few days, Hastert's doctor examined the infection at Bethesda and diagnosed it as cellulitis, a skin infection that appears as a swollen, red area that feels hot and tender, and that can spread rapidly without treatment, the spokesman said.
Hastert is a 10-term congressman from Yorkville, Ill., in Chicago's suburbs. He has been speaker since 1999, succeeding Newt Gingrich of Georgia, who was the first Republican speaker in four decades. Recently, Hastert's tenure became the longest of any Republican speaker.