Sometimes, the cure is as bad as the illness.
Anthony Marshall, the accused swindling son of philanthropist Brooke Astor, said yesterday he’s being treated for both a ministroke he suffered two weeks ago and a mild concussion he got on Sunday when he fell off the treadmill at his Upper East Side apartment.
The workouts had been prescribed by his cardiologist, he said.
“I told him from now on he can’t do anything,” his wife, Charlene, told reporters of any future workouts.
Marshall, 85, took a long lunch break from his two-month-long swindle trial yesterday so he could undergo a CAT-scan to address lingering dizziness and headaches from the treadmill topple. The scan showed minor bruising of his brain.
“Actually, I didn’t fall off of it — I fell onto it,” Marshall said of the accident. “I was wedged between two pieces of equipment.”