Sen. John Fetterman is opening up for the primary time about his hospitalization for scientific melancholy — and one of many main takeaways is … he now has a listening to deficiency.

The Pennsylvania legislator — who was simply elected to the U.S. Senate this previous November in a good race towards Dr. Oz — talked to CBS on digicam a pair days earlier than he was discharged from Walter Reed in D.C. … the place he is been receiving remedy since February.

Fetterman was launched from inpatient care on Friday, and now says he is in remission for his melancholy. Right here on this interview, he goes on to elucidate that he is trying ahead to creating up for misplaced time … particularly along with his household.

Because it seems, JF truly went into the hospital on his son’s 14th birthday — a reminiscence that introduced him to tears … as he did not need his child to keep in mind that second with this.

Unclear what sparked Fetterman’s melancholy, but it surely seems like he’d battled it for years … even earlier than he ran for the open PA Senate seat. The information report additionally suggests his stroke from final yr — which has affected his capacity to speak — would possibly’ve performed a component.

One other fascinating nugget from this sit-down … the Walter Reed docs have discovered a critical new listening to deficit in him, though it isn’t stated explicitly if it is everlasting or not. In any case, it seems like Sen. Fetterman will proceed utilizing closed captioning units in the intervening time — which he’d already been doing since getting back from his stroke restoration.