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May 21, 2008

Patrick Kennedy to join his father on the Cape

After spending much of the past four days at his father's Massachusetts General Hospital bedside, U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy planned to follow him to the family's Hyannisport compound, where Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has gone after his hospital discharge this morning.

"The congressman is very focused on being with his father and spending time with his father and doing everything he can to support his father," said Patrick Kennedy's spokeswoman, Robin Costello.

For the time being, that meant the younger Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat, has returned to his Portsmouth home only long enough to pack for the trek to the Cape, Costello said.

The family was to confer with the senator's doctors in the coming days to chart his course of treatment for the malignant brain tumor with which he was diagnosed yesterday. Costello said that congressman Kennedy does not yet know exactly how his father will proceed but plans to stay by his side during the coming days.

For now, congressman Kennedy has cancelled the dates on his public schedule.

-- John Mulligan of the Journal's Washington Bureau

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 1:39 PM | Permalink

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