Fox News | November 15, 2025
By Jasmine Baehr
Senator John Fetterman shared a graphic recovery photo on Saturday, two days after a fall near his Pennsylvania home sent him to a Pittsburgh hospital with a facial injury caused by a ventricular fibrillation flare-up.
Fetterman, D-Pa., posted a close-up selfie on X showing a stitched gash across his cheek as he held an iced coffee. “Twenty stitches later and a full recovery, I’m back home,” he wrote, thanking doctors at UPMC for “putting me back together” and supporters for their well-wishes.
The image came just two days after he was hospitalized early Thursday. According to a spokesperson, the senator was out for a morning walk near his home in Braddock when he suddenly became light-headed, collapsed, and struck his face.
Doctors later determined the fall was triggered by a flare-up of ventricular fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm that can cause dizziness or sudden loss of balance. Fetterman remained at UPMC for observation and medication adjustments before being discharged and returning home.
His office stated that he is “doing well” and recuperating with his wife, Gisele, and their children.
In a lighthearted comment on the incident, Fetterman joked in a statement Thursday, “If you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!”
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**Topics:** Health/Medicine, History, Local News, Science
**Keywords:** Fetterman, heart, photo, scare
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