http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/2009_02_21_Aide:_Ted_Kennedy_%E2%80%98doing_well_/Aide: Ted Kennedy ‘doing well’
By Herald staff
Saturday, February 21, 2009
A spokeswoman for U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy yesterday said he is “doing well” and working by telephone despite a Herald report quoting friends who say his battle with brain cancer is in its final stage.
“He may not physically be in Washington but he’s burning up the phone lines on Senate business and is keeping his staff as busy as ever,” Kennedy aide Melissa Wagoner said.
The Herald’s Inside Track column reported yesterday that sources close to the ailing senior senator say he may have only months to live and may never return to the Senate.
“This entire story was made up out of whole cloth,” Wagoner said in a written statement. “It is absolute tabloid trash. None of these sources could possibly be close to the Senator because those who are understand that he’s doing well.”The spokeswoman would not say when Kennedy is expected to next return to his Senate office. He is currently in Florida.
Kennedy, who marks his 77th birthday tomorrow, was diagnosed in May with a malignant brain tumor after suffering seizures. He collapsed at a luncheon after the inauguration of President Obama, but subsequently returned to Washington, D.C., to vote on an early version of the stimulus bill.
The Inside Track also reported speculation that Kennedy’s wife, Vicki, is being mentioned as a successor to her husband in the Senate. Wagoner would not address that issue.
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