By John Kruzel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump‘s former doctor Ronny Jackson stated on Saturday that the previous president is recovering as anticipated from a gunshot wound to his ear that he suffered final week, however famous intermittent bleeding and stated Trump might require a listening to examination.
The bullet fired by a would-be murderer at a July 13 Trump rally in Pennsylvania got here “lower than 1 / 4 of an inch from getting into his head” earlier than hanging the highest of Trump’s proper ear, stated Jackson, a Republican congressman from Texas who served as doctor to Presidents Trump and Barack Obama.
5 days after narrowly escaping assassination, Trump on Thursday accepted the Republican Celebration’s presidential nomination for the Nov. 5 election.
Jackson, offering what seemed to be the primary public description by a medical skilled of Trump’s gunshot wound, stated in a letter posted on social media Saturday that “the bullet monitor produced a 2 (centimeter) broad wound that prolonged all the way down to the cartilaginous floor of the ear.”
“There was initially vital bleeding, adopted by marked swelling of the complete higher ear. The swelling has since resolved, and the wound is starting to granulate and heal correctly,” he wrote.
Jackson stated he had supplied every day analysis and therapy of Trump’s wound for the reason that capturing. He stated no sutures had been required, however famous that as a result of “extremely vascular nature of the ear, there’s nonetheless intermittent bleeding requiring a dressing to be in place.”
“He could have additional evaluations, together with a complete listening to examination, as wanted,” Jackson added.
Trump recounted the assassination try and a rapt viewers on Thursday on the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee, saying that he was solely there “by the grace of Almighty God.”
“I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt one thing hit me actually, actually exhausting on my proper ear,” he stated, a thick bandage nonetheless protecting his ear. “I stated to myself, ‘Wow, what was that? It will possibly solely be a bullet.'”
(Reporting by John Kruzel, Modifying by Nick Zieminski)
