From the AP:
BOSTON : Doctors for the Massachusetts Democrat say tests conducted after Sen. Edward Kennedy suffered a seizure this weekend show a tumor in his left parietal lobe. His treatment will be decided after more tests but the usual course includes combinations of radiation and chemotherapy.
The 76-year-old senator has been hospitalized in Boston since Saturday, when he was airlifted from Cape Cod after a seizure at his home.
His wife and children have been with him each day but have made no public statements.
His doctors said in a statement released to The Associated Press that he has had no further seizures, is in good spirits and is resting comfortably.
Ten years ago this Sunday, I suffered the first seizure of my life. I was sitting in a chair on the front lawn, talking on the phone with a friend, who was also a customer. I can remember a sense of tunnel vision; my next memory took place in the back of an ambulance.
When a person in a white coat with a clipboard looks you in the eye and mentions the tests you will undergo include ones to "rule out" a brain tumor, life suddenly seems much more serious.
I was lucky. A brain tumor wasn't the cause of my seizures, which continued for about every three months for the next three and a half years. I have been seizure-free for the past six and a half years.
Whenever I hear a news report about a "seizure", I stop and I listen. Today's report on Sen. Kennedy's diagnosis makes me sad.
But he's a tough guy; he's survived two brother's assassinations, other family tragedies, countless controversies, and a plane crash that almost killed him.
"Tough" doesn't come in a pillbox, but it's a powerful medicine, too.
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