USA: California Governor Arnold Schwarzengger on the mend after breaking leg in ski mishap

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had successful surgery on Tuesday (December 26) to repair a leg he broke while skiing with family in Idaho over the weekend, the Republican's office said. A team led by orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Kevin Ehrhart performed the 90-minute operation in which cables and screws were used to wire the two main fragments of Schwarzenegger's broken femur bone, in his upper right thigh, back together. The procedure was said to go without complications. The 59-year-old Schwarzenegger will would remain hospitalized for three days, as is standard for such procedures, and that his recovery would take about eight weeks. Schwarzenegger, who is married to veteran broadcast journalist Maria Shriver, niece of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, broke his leg during a family vacation while skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho, on December Shriver said her husband was "looking forward to his inauguration" to his second term next week. The skiing accident marked the governor's third medical incident in just over a year. In January, he received 15 stitches to close a cut lip after colliding with a car while riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Los Angeles. Last December, Schwarzenegger was examined at the University of California-Davis Medical Center for stomach flu and a rapid heartbeat. He was back at work the next day. Schwarzenegger underwent heart surgery in 1997.

ITN Source | December 28, 2006

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