If it's mostly aphasia, Fetterman is fine. Hopefully a full recovery will happen, but it's only been 6 months. And I don't think Fetterman hasn't it that bad at the moment (not to say it wasn't worse before)

I went into cardiac arrest and spent a week in a medically induced coma on ECMO not expected to live. Came out of it worried about how I was mentally and it was mostly like I had a bad concussion without the brain slamming against my skull. "pump head" is what my doctors called it.

Anyway, for about 4-5 months I dealt with aphasia. I could write out what I wanted to say and even read it with no problem. Talking on the fly, was easy. Thinking about a question and giving a response was a different story. That was confusing for family to deal with: "But you just.... it doesn't make sense!"

I couldn't simply ask for a "a bottle of water". It was "cup of fluid" or even in Spanish, "necessito agua." And it was always with the simple words. It wasn't like I was struggling with complex words or phrases. Ironically, I probably had less trouble with them.

So maybe for the first year, Fetterman is not giving unprepared speeches, or talking off the cuff in the Senate Chamber.