LEESBURG (WINA) – After announcing an initial diagnosis in April, Virginia 10th District Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton said a severe form of Parkinson’s means she won’t seek re-election in 2024. Back in April, she said she was discussing treatment with her doctors to allow her to function in her congressional work. But in a statement this (Monday) morning, Wexton writes doctors have modified her diagnosis to progressive supra-nuclear palsy… which she describes as “a kind of Parkinson’s on steroids”.

She calls the diagnosis “a tough one”… and there is no getting better. She says she’ll continue treatment options to manage her symptoms, but they don’t work as well with her condition.

Wexton was first elected to Congress in 2018.

Click here to read her entire statement.