[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 19, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S6415]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        STATUS OF SENATOR BRYAN

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, while we are talking about patients and a 
Patients' Bill of Rights, I want to report to my colleagues on Senator 
Bryan, who has been quite ill.
  I talked with Senator Bryan last Friday. He was in St. Mary's 
Hospital in Reno when I spoke to him. He had for a couple of days a bad 
sore throat, for lack of a better description. Friday morning, he was 
in Reno and his throat was really sore. He has a son in Reno who is a 
cardiologist. He went to the emergency room. He was admitted to the 
hospital.
  They did a CT scan and found an abscess in his throat area. Friday 
and Saturday they administered antibiotics, hoping he would get better 
soon. He got worse, and Sunday morning they operated. He has been on a 
ventilator since then in intensive care.
  I spoke with the nurses taking care of him--by the way, he was back 
here last week with some junior high school students--and they said he 
was doing just fine. She had told him I was calling, and he gave the 
thumbs up. They expect him to be off the ventilator today.
  They do not know the cause of the infection. They are still working 
on that. It is an unusual thing. I have had a couple people ask me 
about Senator Bryan today. He is doing just fine.

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