Schwarzenegger Breaks Leg While Skiing

[The Straight Story]

Schwarzenegger Breaks Leg While Skiing

By MARCUS WOHLSEN
Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger broke his leg while skiing with his family Saturday morning in Sun Valley, Idaho, a spokesman said.

Schwarzenegger, 59, was taken to a hospital for X-rays and was discharged with a fracture to his right femur, said Adam Mendelsohn, the governor's Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications.

He will have surgery to repair the bone when he returns to Los Angeles, Mendelsohn said. The governor remained at his Sun Valley home Saturday night and still planned to spend Christmas there.

No one else was involved in the accident, Mendelsohn said.

The fracture was the third medical problem the governor suffered in a year.

He spent several hours at a University of California, Davis, hospital last December with a rapid heartbeat after coming down with a stomach flu. In January, Schwarzenegger needed 15 stitches to repair his cut lip after colliding with a car while riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Los Angeles.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Link to the LBN

some things bear repeating

He IS an idiot... for not getting that surgery ASAP... his chances of complications do increase. I wonder if they made him sign a AMA form.

And boys and girls this is what steroid use will bring you later in life... ah yes dime om the dollar the former weight lifting champion is currently suffering from osteoporis

[Ecumenist]

14. That's exactly what I told Himself when I read about this

fracture of his femur. I told him that I always thought that it was NOT easy to break a femur and the fact that he used Anabolic steroids,( in my opinion, still uses on occasion), he's probably dealing with osteoporosis, BIG TIME!!

Po' thang..:eyes:

[nolabels]

2. Is he turning into a mortal now too?

Guess it's better to kiss the snow than the bark of tree :shrug:

[caligirl]

3. tachycardia and the flu, a cut lip and a Fx femur, hmm, this looks like

something else could underlie these incidents. Is rehab in the future?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Not in his future, in his past

all these are classic effects of steroid abuse.

He just might become the poster boy of why you don't do that shit.

Look on the bright side, some good can come out of his personal stupidity

[sandnsea]

5. Democrats who ski in Sun Valley

are elitists who are out of touch with the common man.

Republicans who ski are rugged outdoorsmen. (well until they break a leg anyway.)

[kerrygoddess]

6. LOL!

Yeah... who's the girlie man now?

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[kerrygoddess]

8. We're stuck with him

tried to get rid of him. Really don't get why so many were snowed by him.

[JI7]

9. the media

they reported nothing on Angelides. and of course the moron "democrats" who bashed Angelides and claimed he was doing nothing when he was out there every day doing all he could. they love to be pulled by the right wing media strings.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. What he\she said

I may add, that is why 87 failed as well as public financing of elections

[JI7]

11. yup

while California can be said to be a "Democratic" state. it's not so liberal sometimes. at least not outside of abortion and gun control . that's why Republicans are able to win just by being pro choice and supporting gun control. that's all it takes for them to be seen as moderates or unlike the other Republicans like Bush.

and with California being such a big expensive media state there is no way they were going to allow public financing to pass and lose profits from the private big corporations that fund their candidates.

[cyclezealot]

12. He's also addicted to sky diving.

maybe there is hope. Germandi would make a strong governor and he knows how to pronunce California.

[EST]

13. Two sick (great) minds with a similar picture...

It's fun to have a slightly wicked mind.

I heard that when he smacked that tree, he instantly earned the name everyone had been privately calling him - "fu*kface."

When he showed up at the pearly gates, st. Peter took one look at him and sadly shook his head, "What the hell did you think you were doin?" he asked, exasperated.

"Oh, 'bout sixty miles an hour!"

[DeSwiss]

15. Not to put too harsh a twist on things, but....

...I would have thought after Sonny Bono, California Republicans would have given up winter sports completely...