Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Secretary of State John Kerry, was rushed to the hospital on Sunday for an undisclosed medical emergency. However, according to a report, she showed symptoms of a seizure.
The 74-year-old was rushed to Nantucket Cottage Hospital with her husband by her side. According to a spokesman, she was listed as in critical condition. After she was stabilized, she was transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she remains on Monday morning.
While the hospital and Kerry’s spokesman did not go into details, a source for the Associated Press says that she showed the symptoms of a seizure.
“The family is grateful for the outpouring of support it has received and aware of the interest in her condition, but they ask for privacy at this time,” Kerry spokesman Glen Johnson said in a statement Sunday night, notes USA Today.
Heinz Kerry married Kerry while he was a Senator for Massachusetts in 1995. She is the widow of Republican Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz, who died in 1991. Heinz Kerry battled breast cancer in 2009.
Kerry had hoped to make another trip to Israel this week, but a State Department spokesperson told the AP that his schedule may change so he can be with his wife.
