GOP Mississippi rep in home hospice care

Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R-Miss.) has been transferred to hospice care at home after doctors discovered a new tumor that cannot be treated, his office confirmed Friday.

Doctors told Nunnalee late last week that a new tumor had developed and “no further medical treatment is possible,” local consultant Morgan Baldwin said in a statement shared with The Hill. 

{mosads}On Monday, Nunnalee was transferred to his home, Morgan said, adding the three-term congressman is “resting comfortably with family.”

Nunnelee, 56, has served in the House since 2011. He easily won reelection in November, and was sworn in Jan. 12 at a local rehabilitation center by a district judge in northern Mississippi, instead of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

In June, he suffered a stroke during an operation to remove a brain tumor and underwent radiation, chemotherapy and physical therapy. 

The congressman returned to Washington, D.C., in November. His last vote was in December for the $1.1 trillion “cromnibus” spending bill. However, he experienced a hematoma on his left leg over the holidays and was admitted to a hospital Dec. 28. 

His office said earlier this month that the physical stress from swelling caused by clotted blood had taken its toll but he had been moved to a rehabilitation wing of the hospital. 

“The family continues to ask for your prayers and requests privacy out of respect for Congressman Nunnelee,” his consultant said in a statement first reported by the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.

— Scott Wong contributed