More Accident Info!
Governor Arnold is making a good recovery after undergoing surgery on Tuesday at a Los Angeles hospital to repair a broken leg he suffered after a skiing accident over the holiday weekend.
"Following the surgery, the governor was awake, alert and talking in the recovery room," orthopedic surgeon Dr. Kevin Erhart said in a statement. "He is now fully coherent and I have cleared him to resume his duties as governor."
According to the Santa Monica-based doctor, a combination of cables and screws were used to "wire the two main fragments of the governor's broken femur bone back together." The "relatively common" procedure lasted about an hour and a half, and the post-op X-rays "look great."
Erhart has treated Schwarzenegger before, after suffering a shoulder injury whilst filming Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines in 2003.
Schwarzenegger, 59, will be required to stay in the hospital for a further three days and it will take approximately eight weeks for his right leg to heal, during which time he will need crutches, but he won't be wearing a cast, Dr. Erhart was quoted.
The Austrian Oak, who's scheduled to be sworn in for a second term of Governorship on January 5th, was on vacation with his family in Sun Valley, Idaho, when he injured himself on Saturday.
Ski instructor Adi Erber, described it as a "freak accident," and told the Los Angeles Times that Schwarzenegger was about to take on the last 200 yards of a run on Bald Mountain when his ski pole got caught in one of his skis.
"It was the last run down," Erber, a fellow Austrian who was with Schwarzenegger when he fell, said. "He was trying to take off again and he tripped." The duo had been skiing for about two hours before it happened.
"I've skied with him for 18 years," Erber said, predicting that the governor will be ready to hit the slopes again in no time. "He's an expert skier."
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