“Glad to be back,” Reid said, seated in front of reporters and cameras at a conference table in his office.
The Democratic Senate leader described in graphic detail what surgeons will do on Monday when they reconstruct the bones around his right eye that were shattered when an exercise band he was using broke, causing him to tumble hard into cabinets in his Nevada home. He also cracked several ribs, although the former boxer described those injuries as “minor.”
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“The doctors have been very supportive of my plans. Nothing has changed,” he said, adding, “We have quite an operation in Nevada that hasn’t lost a step.”
Reid said he is exercising again — walking up to an hour at a time — but not yet back to doing strength workouts.
