KENTUCKY (WKYT/Gray News) - Sen. Mitch McConnell shared a health update as questions about his condition continued after he was hospitalized for weeks.

According to the Office of the Attending Physician (OAP), since McConnell’s discharge from hospital care, he has maintained a strenuous course of physical therapy and rehabilitation.

“He is not yet medically cleared to leave the rehab facility and return to the office,” the OAP said.

The senator said he is “working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate and in Kentucky, keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors’ orders.”

He said that, due to his recovery, he will not be able to make it to the Fancy Farm picnic.

McConnell said, “Unfortunately, that means I won’t be able to make it to Fancy Farm, Kentucky, this Saturday.”

The Fancy Farm picnic is an annual event where Kentucky politicians campaign to large crowds.

McConnell said, “There’s no place I’d rather be on the first Saturday in August than with the good people of western Kentucky, feasting on pork and mutton.”

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