WASHINGTON – Waving and smiling, Chief Justice John Roberts walked briskly yesterday out of a hospital in Maine and resumed his vacation, returning to normalcy a day after he suffered his second seizure in 14 years.
The Supreme Court was mum on whether Roberts would need anti-seizure medication. But specialists say his doctor would have raised that possibility because someone who has had two seizures is at high risk of having a third.
Roberts, 52, cheerfully waved to onlookers outside Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport, Maine, before heading by pontoon boat to his summer home on Hupper Island, off Maine's middle coast.
Roberts joins millions of adults who have had seizures for no apparent reason. The court said doctors had found no tumor, stroke or any other explanation.
Seizures are essentially little electrical storms in the brain. The resulting symptoms can range from a muscle twitch to loss of consciousness. They generally last 30 seconds to two minutes, and most people report feeling back to normal just minutes after that.
