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Sen. Kirk Lays Out Struggles After Stroke

Posted on 02/6/2013 by | Washington Watch | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal Health | PoliticsIn a sort of mini-memoir, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) lays out the struggles and introspection that sprang from his year-long battle to heal from an ischemic stroke. “I’m different from what I was,” Kirk writes in a first-person story for the Washington Post. “My left leg and left arm might never work like they once did, but my mind is sharp. I’m capable of doing the work entrusted to me by the people of Illinois, but I am forever changed.” Kirk …