Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) said in a statement on Monday that she was hospitalized over the weekend after experiencing a rapid onset of numbness in her face.
Britt said that the cause of the facial numbness was determined to be the swelling of a nerve in her face that was likely caused by “a post-viral infection.”
“While with my family in Montgomery this past weekend, I experienced a sudden onset of numbness in my face,” she said in a statement.
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Night-time in the forest and I’m surrounded by the squawks, rattles and chirrups of the jungle.
My heart is pumping as my torchlight scans the mass of foliage, then the beam descends on the red and purple sheen of the strawberry poison-dart frog.
So toxic are its skin secretions that it could kill a human — yet here it is, just a yard away.
Walk on the wild side: Sian Boyle goes on a tour of Costa Rica, a country
