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Hillary Clinton Leaves Hospital After Treatment for Blood Clot

Jan. 2, 2013 5:21pm Jason Howerton

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, center, is transported on the New York Presbyterian Hospital complex Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, in New York. Officials say Clinton who was admitted to the New York hospital Sunday continues to be treated with blood thinners to dissolve a clot in the vein behind the right ear. Doctors found the clot during a follow-up exam stemming from a concussion she suffered in early December. Credit: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was released from a New York hospital on Wednesday, three days after doctors discovered a blood clot in her head.

Clinton’s medical team advised her Wednesday evening that she was making good progress on all fronts and said they are confident she will fully recover, said Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines. Doctors had been treating Clinton with blood thinners to dissolve a clot in a vein that runs through the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear.

“She’s eager to get back to the office,” Reines said in a statement, adding that the secretary and her family are grateful for the excellent care she received at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Reines said details of when Clinton will return to work will be clarified in the coming days.

Clinton had been in the hospital since Sunday, when doctors discovered the clot on an MRI test during a follow-up exam stemming from a concussion she suffered earlier in December. While at home battling a stomach virus, Clinton had fainted, fallen and struck her head, a spokesman said.

“Grateful my Mom discharged from the hospital and is heading home,” the secretary’s daughter, Chelsea, wrote on Twitter. “Even more grateful her medical team (is) confident she’ll make a full recovery.”

In this image from video, former President Bill Clinton, second from left, leaves New York-Presbyterian Hospital Wednesday Jan. 2, 2013, after visiting his wife Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton who is hospitalized with a blood clot in her head. Doctors are treating the clot with blood thinners and say they are confident she will make a full recovery. Credit: AP

Earlier Wednesday, the State Department said Clinton had been speaking by telephone with staff in Washington and reviewing paperwork while in the hospital.

“She’s been quite active on the phone with all of us,” said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.

Before being released from the hospital, Clinton was photographed Wednesday getting into a black van with her husband, Bill, Chelsea and a security contingent to be taken elsewhere on the sprawling hospital campus. The last time Clinton had been seen publicly was on Dec. 7.

Clinton’s physicians had said Monday that there was no neurological damage but that they planned to keep her in the hospital while they established the proper dose for the blood thinners. They said Clinton, 65, had been in good spirits and was engaging with doctors, family and aides.

Sidelined by her illness for most of December, Clinton was forced to cancel scheduled testimony before Congress about a scathing report into the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, and was absent on Dec. 21 when President Barack Obama nominated Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to succeed her when she steps down at the start of Obama’s second term, as had long been planned.

But Clinton had expected to return to work this week and had already started to resume regular phone contact with her foreign counterparts. On Saturday, the day before the clot was discovered, Clinton had a half-hour conversation with Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N. envoy to Syria, in which the two discussed the state of affairs in that country, her spokeswoman said.

Also on Saturday, Clinton spoke by telephone with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, discussing recent developments in Syria, Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories.

The illness has also raised questions about Clinton’s political future and how her health might influence her decision about whether to run for president in 2016, as prominent Democrats have been urging her to consider.

Clinton suffered from a blood clot in 1998, midway through her husband’s second term as president, although that clot was located in her knee.

Featured image via Getty

This story has been updated

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Comments (106)

katzkiner
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 2:58pm
Why do Hill, Bill.and Obama lie so much? They enjoy seeing us fools chase their rumours.
Believe nothing they tell you, show you, or anything their friends say. America will lose anytime they are in charge. They have a track record, it will not change.

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fgarvin
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 1:04pm
Come on Blood Clot, you can make America, and the world, a better place. YES YOU CAN, YES YOU CAN !

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ALLEGIANCE
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 10:22am
Mrs Clinton also had a blood clot in here knmee in the late 90s. I suppose that was a fake too huh Coservative??

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ALLEGIANCE
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 10:19am
2013 has done nothing for mean spirited evil fake Conservatives. If you cannot allow God to enter your heart, to treat people with sympathy when they are ill, then STOP CALLING YOURSELVES CHRISTIANS. There is nothing Christian about these comments. It never cease to amaze me, how people allow the devil to use them so feverishly. You all don’t even try to allow God in. And you want so desperately for people to believe you are of God. I am praying that the Lord eventually get inside of at least a small percentage of you fake Christians. Tonight, I am going to pray that he visits your home. Hopefully something will be left there, that will curtail your will to be so mean and evil, even when someone was seriously ill. I don’t care what Obama or Hillary or Boehner or Cantor or any politician does with policy, I refuse to make light of their illness. Because I know that Karma is a serious and dangerous thing, that always comes back when you least expect it. Some of you on this website, have never had a bad time in your entire lives. Never wanted for anything, never had to deal with any harshness of any kind. yet, you focus on Democrats like you just like your retirement savings or something. I understand disagreeing with a politician, but this down right extreme hate and mean spirited comments is preposterous. You all have said some very damaging and evil things in 2012, even attacking the Obama daughters. You call yourselves Christians, then I’d hate to meet an atheist.

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- ALLEGIANCE
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 10:21am
  CORRECTION:
  
  yet, you focus on Democrats like you LOST like your retirement savings or something
  
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- fgarvin
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 1:10pm
  Who said everyone on TheBlaze was Christian or Conservative? You’re a total FTARD for even making that assumption and should be put to sleep!
  
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Totally Domestic
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 9:19am
Academy award? Best preforming actress

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sueatt
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 9:00am
I thought I was signing in to read news from american patriots with Christian beliefs. Pardon me, it appears from the comments section that I stumbled onto right wing whack job site.

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- ALLEGIANCE
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 10:30am
  SUEATT
  
  lease know that the people who post this way are not conservatives. They may be Tea Party types or they may be these young immature teens or young adults, who have subscribed to Rush or Hannity, who live and breathe conspiracy theories and who aim to spew as much hatred as possible. I know that there are actual conservatives who may seem somewhat volatile, but nothing like the comments that have been posted on the Blaze. So please do not lump us in the same boat as these people.
  
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FeralHuman
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 6:37am
No one is discharge from a hospital unless they are pushed out to their car in a wheel chair. This is for insurance purposes. Why did she just get to walk out?

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taintso
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 6:06am
Why didn’t she get the Obamacare treatment, an IV of Draino.

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taintso
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:44am
Now that the moozlum brotherhood is putting a bounty on diplomats the Clintons should do well in the private sector.

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Chancellor
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 1:11am
So they fix the Blood Clot …….For most of us it’s called lancing a boil on your buttdocks……..and bet she has memory loss that came included in the package.

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Guitar Master
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 1:07am
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