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WASHINGTON – Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson was recovering without complications from emergency brain surgery to repair bleeding in his brain.
Johnson was in critical condition at George Washington University Hospital but was described as recovering. The South Dakota lawmaker, 59, was on “an uncomplicated postoperative course,” the U.S. Capitol physician said after visiting him Thursday afternoon.
“He has been appropriately responsive to both word and touch. No further surgical intervention has been required,” said the physician, Adm. John Eisold.
Johnson was responding to the voice of his wife, Barbara, and following directions after the surgery, the senator’s office said in a statement. “He was reaching for and holding her hand,” the statement read. The family “is encouraged and optimistic,” Barbara Johnson said.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."