Posted on 01/09/2015 11:01:40 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said Friday that his eye injuries remain so severe that doctors can't yet determine whether his full vision will be restored.
Reid suffered at least three broken ribs and broke several bones around his right eye last week while exercising at his suburban Las Vegas home. The injuries kept him from coming to Capitol Hill this week for the start of the 114th Session of Congress.
Speaking from Washington, where he's on doctors' orders to stay home and recover, Reid said doctors are "very hopeful" he will have full vision, but "This isn’t anything that’s a slam dunk. I had a serious injury in my eye, there’s blood accumulation there and they’re hoping it resolves itself. As long as there’s blood in my eye, it’s hard to see."
He explained in great detail for KNPR's "State of Nevada" radio program how the injuries happened during one of his regular, intense workout routines:
"Three days a week I have an exercise routine. I do 250 situps, I some yoga-type stuff for a little while and then I’ve been using for the last three or [so] plus years, these bands. I use one that’s the second-strongest you can get, it’s dark grey. Anyway, I do those things hundreds of times three days a week. I do different routines. And I was doing almost finished at my new home in Nevada and the band broke and it catapulted me backwards and to one side. I crashed into a series of cabinets we have and fortunately it missed my temple by just a little tiny bit and it hit me in my right eye and it broke a number of bones around my right eye and broke four ribs and a few bruises other places."
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I’ve been exercising in gyms since I was 20. That’s 40 years. I’ve never seen anybody injured. I did see somebody put a 45 pound bar through a wall. He had probably six 45 pound plates on each side. He lifted it and it started to slip. All the plates came off one side and the bar was flung through a wall. Everybody in the way landed on their hands in the pushup position and not one person was hurt. I spotted the start of the episode and was too far away to help so I scurried away. Another bigger guy came over and wordlessly handed the culprit a clip to put on the end. The culprit turned bright red and apologized. (Never saw him again.)
Re the photo: A room full of fools!
Harry’s injury. Next time pay the hooker what you promised.
Bah. Harry Reid’s Mafia friends sent the old horse thief a lesson he couldn’t ignore.
More like pissed of a Union Thug after the 2014 elections.
He looks very much like Jimmy Carter in that pic. An old frail man.
Is Moochelle a lefty?
Obama is, but I doubt he could do any damage, even to old Harry.
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