Johnson heads home to South Dakota

Sen. Tim Johnson (D) will return to his home state of South Dakota at the end of August, after months in therapy following a ruptured blood clot.

{mosads}Johnson said in a statement released Tuesday that he looks forward to being back in South Dakota and seeing his two newly adopted grandchildren.

“The doctors have given me a ‘thumbs up,’ and Barb and I are incredibly excited to head home,” Johnson said, referring to his wife. “We have missed our friends and family and cannot wait to meet our two new grandchildren.”

Johnson has been undergoing speech, physical and occupational therapy at National Rehabilitation Hospital five days a week, his spokeswoman Julianne Fisher said.

Fisher said Johnson’s staff is working on more specific plans for his return to the Capitol.