VENTURA : Commissioner on Mend at Hospital
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Although still listed in serious condition Sunday, Ventura Planning Commissioner Tim Downey was resting comfortably and talking cheerfully with relatives, less than a week after collapsing with cardiac problems at a public hearing.
Downey, 44, remains in the intensive care unit at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, where he was taken after he crumpled in his seat during a Planning Commission meeting Tuesday.
But he can now sit up in bed and talk to visitors, and he seems in good spirits, Downey’s sister, Kathy Zavolosieck, said from the hospital, where she and a handful of relatives spend several hours a day at his bedside.
“He basically watches TV, reads his cards and talks with family members,” Zavolosieck said. “He’s doing OK.”
The family has no idea when Downey, president of a Ventura company that specializes in recycling oil-field wastes, will be released, Zavolosieck said. Hospital officials could not comment on his case.
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