After Fainting, Reno Chipper, Back at Work
Atty. Gen. Janet Reno returned to work a day after her second fainting spell in a year, and promised to take a vacation soon. Her doctors were reexamining one of her medications.
One of this city’s leading workaholics, the 60-year-old attorney general was released from an overnight hospital stay and was back at her desk by 8 a.m. Monday after her doctor pronounced her “100% fit for duty.”
Reno was bright and cheerful at a morning meeting with reporters, in contrast to her appearance on a short, televised videotape that showed her being lifted from an ambulance at Georgetown University Medical Center on Sunday.
Doctors told her a brief fainting spell at a suburban church Sunday could have resulted from dehydration or stress. She acknowledged that a Saturday afternoon hike along the Potomac River left her drenched in sweat from the heat and she hadn’t taken extra liquids to compensate.
Reno, who takes medication for the mildest form of Parkinson’s disease, also fainted last November in Mexico City.
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