Chiles Leaves Hospital, Told to Go Easy After ‘Little Stroke’
Gov. Lawton Chiles was released from the hospital Friday, smiling and looking rested after treatment for a “little stroke.”
“I feel fine,” he said at the front door of the Tallahassee Memorial Regional Medical Center. “They tell me to take it easy over the weekend. And go full bore on Monday.”
The governor’s neurologist, Dr. Charles Maitland, examined Chiles briefly Friday morning and agreed to discharge him if the governor promised to take it easy and stay around the mansion over the weekend.
“From a neurological standpoint, he’s normal,” said Maitland. “There is nothing else I have to do.”
Doctors said the governor did not suffer a stroke and will have no lasting damage from the transient ischemic attack, sometimes called a “little stroke,” that left him nauseated and disoriented early Wednesday.
Chiles has a history of heart disease, and his health was an issue in his 1990 campaign. He underwent quadruple bypass surgery in 1985 while serving in the U.S. Senate.
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