Hillary Clinton fractures wrist in India hotel bathroom

[FarCenter]

March 16 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fractured her wrist after she slipped in a bathtub at Umaid Bhawan Palace in India.

The former first lady suffered a hairline fracture while on a three-day private tour of India. An X-ray and a CT scan conducted at Goyal Hospital confirmed the injury.

A team of doctors attended her at the Umaid Palace, leading her to cancel a scheduled visit to the 15th century Mehrangarh Fort.

The fracture comes after Clinton nearly slipped and fell twice while climbing down a stone staircase at Jahaz Mahal in Mandu in Madhya Pradesh.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2018/03/16/Hillary-Clinton-fractures-wrist-in-India-hotel-bathroom/1441521211106/


Hillary Clinton fractures hand on India trip

NEW DELHI: Hillary Clinton has fractured her hand during a tour of India, reportedly slipping in a bathtub at a luxury hotel in a former palace.

A doctor at the private Goyal Hospital told AFP on Friday that Clinton had undergone screening after suffering pain in her right hand following a fall.

The 70-year-old former presidential candidate was staying at Umaid Bhawan, the palace of the former royal family of Jodhpur in western Rajasthan state, now a spectacular heritage hotel.

"We did a CT scan and X-ray and found a hairline fracture around the wrist area. She was advised to take rest for few days and use a crepe bandage for support," said the doctor on condition of anonymity.

Local and international media quoted unnamed sources as saying Clinton had slipped in the bath in an accident that comes just five months after she broke her toe in London.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/hillary-clinton-fractures-hand-on-india-trip/articleshow/63331426.cms

[BumRushDaShow]

1. I hope she recovers quickly!

[Cha]

3. Always something... when you

least expect it.

I broke my left wrist once when I was just standing outside on roller skates. Most inconvenient!

[Zoonart]

5. Yep.

I tripped over a folding chair at a barbecue and fractured my wrist many years ago. Hairline fractures are very painful. Gat well hillary.

[mcar]

27. I broke my toe walking into a kitchen chair

Hubby heard the crack across the room.

[Cha]

29. Oh no! that's one of my

things I don't ever want to do. I run for working out, and I think that would mess me up!

Did you have trouble walking then? How long did it take to heal? I'm always running into things but I immediately go to the freezer and get an ice gel to put on it for 20 minutes.

[mcar]

36. I wrapped it and wore sneakers to work for about 4 weeks

I was exercise walking a lot at the time and had to give that up for a month.

For the next year, I could tell when a storm was coming.

[Cha]

37. Wow.. that kind of messed you up, too..

Ouch!

Really, that works for incoming storms?

[mcar]

39. It does

Same happened when I got a stress fracture in my other foot. It'd just start aching when a storm was nigh.

[TeamPooka]

61. Let's see... I broke my toe when I thought a bug ran up my sweatpants and I kicked ina knee jerk

way and smashed my toe against the kitchen cabinets.
My spouse is a veteran ER nurse and she was like: "Thats bad."
Then one time I was watering plants in our back yard and the hose was stuck so I gave it a yank and it turns out it was stuck by being wrapped around my ankle. I went vertical like an old Bugs Bunny cartoon and fell flat on the ground.
I ripped tendons and hairline fractures on my foot on that one. 5th Metatarsal. Still have problems with that 5 years later.
I am a walking disaster area sometimes.
I hope Hillary heals quickly because I don't.

[Me.]

34. Most Hilarious Post Of The Week

[Cha]

35. lol.. you find that

funny? It is now!

[Me.]

40. Sorry But I Do

The way you put it...innocently standing on your skates.....

[Cha]

43. Yeah, in a

driveway.. oooops putting my left hand down to break the fall.. snap! A cautionary tale. It was April 1981, Indio California.

During bean season, too.

Me

[Me.]

49. OMG....Part Of My Childhood Was Spent In La Quinta

elementary school in Indio

AS for you on skates...sounds so cute

[Cha]

50. Oh wow.. we do get around!

I was just in Indio for a year and a 1/2.. I was with my boyfriend at the time.

I loved it there, though.. the California desert.

Maybe we were there at the same time?!

[Me.]

51. You Said '81

So no...but it's funny, until not too long ago, nobody ever mentioned those places then boom...it's like the happening spot of the world...go figure

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

46. Nobody ever expects the incident that results in a broken bone.

Mine was a bad fall practicing what I laughingly called "gymnastics".

Roller skates, eh? It's hard to work the skate key with a broken wrist.

[Cha]

47. Ouch! Yes, I had those when I was a kid.. good times!

but these were mine in 1981......


Whoosh.. and down she goes! And, I never skated again.

[MFM008]

54. I broke my knee

Standing in line waiting for a bus...
Stepped on a rock and turned my ankle.
Fell on my knee cap.....

[Cha]

55. Ouch! omg.. that's

awful.. you poor thing.

I hope you're all better now. I never got on roller skates again. I didn't want to take a chance.

[MFM008]

64. Yes Cha

I was 12 at the time.
47 years ago. I'm still pretty clumsy though...

[Cha]

68. Yeah, me too.. I don't

need roller skates to tempt fate.

[nadine_mn]

57. I broke my hand on an exercise bike at the Y

One of those elliptical onces, I reached to grab one of the handles (so you can work your arms while pedaling) to stop it and instead smacked my hand hard. Got a "boxer's fracture" - the ER doctors said they usually see that type of break in young men after punching walls or faces.

I was 40, female, fat and just trying to burn some damn calories.


I fall all the time, usually just standing still (so with wheels on my feet...definitely scary) so I'm kinda used to random injuries,but this was unexpected even for me.

[Cha]

59. Freak accident.. those are the

worst! Your hand all better now, I hope!?

Never do that again, eh?

I think it's cathartic that we're all talking about out past injuries.. I know it has been for me.

Thanks Hillary!

Mahalo, Nadine

[nadine_mn]

60. I was impressed with myself that I literally got right back on that bike (cast and all)

that was a few years ago - I have to get back to the Y and exercise more.

My hand healed well - I was so touched when the doctor said a "young" woman like me would heal in no time.

I think the fear of falling - or hurting yourself in some klutzy way - makes things worse.

I'm pretty sure everyone can relate to looking down a flight of sketchy steps and thinking - oh dear, this cannot end well. I am so glad Hillary had people with her.

[Cha]

62. That is impressive..

good on ya!

I can relate.. and, it looks like Hillary wore the wrong shoes. I can relate to that also. My kids took me on a hike last summer, and I thought we were just going to the beach, but it was a swimming hole by the Ocean that was down a steep, sketchy decline with jagged rocks and slippery mud from a recent rain.

If I had known I wouldn't have worn sliders.. I would have brought my running shoes. I thought one slip and it's all over, man! I didn't want to ruin anybody's fun.. so I made sure I didn't fall. If I ever go there again.. I'll have the right gear, and I won't have a bag with so much beach stuff in it!

Nadine

[Cha]

2. Bummer! Be careful, Hillary, for all

future potential falls!

[Me.]

41. That I Agree With Too

[Cha]

44. That goes for all of

all us.. me too!

[JI7]

4. glad she is ok. i don't think those stairs had handrails

[Sancho]

6. I'd love to see tRump go up and down those stairs...

in slippery shoes too (sorry, but I get after my wife all the time about shoes that look great, and are terrible to walk in on various surfaces). As I get older, I've taken up regular yoga, mostly for balance. I hate to admit it, but it's harder for me to do things that were easy 50 years ago. I can actually see now why hand bars in tubs are useful.

It's really cool to see Hillary out there representing the best of America and enjoying life.

[JI7]

7. it was the shoes

[Cha]

11. Ah, yeah.. that would do it.

[sarah FAILIN]

38. 25% of it was the shoes

The other 75% was those ridiculous old steps. They had chunks out of them and they weren't even the same heighths. No handrail I understand because of the age but I would not go up them to begin with or I would plan on sliding down them on my butt intentionally.

Must have been scary for her.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

52. No, the stairs.

They aren't at all even, and her slips occurred where there were gouged out areas.

[Cha]

9. Good grief.. it's like there

was ice on them!

Glad she had her peeps with her.. Mahalo, Sancho!

Chelsea's like "Mom!".. "Be Careful!"

[ryan_cats]

12. This is people just being mean

This is people just being mean. Those aren't OSHA compliant stairs and I would shudder if I had to use them.

[MichMary]

14. Why post the video?

It's very undignified, and makes her look like a frail, old lady.

[Sancho]

15. I thought it was clear that the news was exaggerating...

She was going down steep stone steps without a handrail and with worn edges. I didn't think she looked frail. I think she clearly stepped on the uneven edge of steps and her shoes were slipping.

The local helpers were there because they must have seen people have issues with those steps in the past.

When she got to the bottom, she was walking normally. This was an example of the RW jumping on some conspiracy, and it was nothing.

[MichMary]

18. Okay

I understand. It's just that I've seen that video posted all over rw sites, sometimes looped. Kind of like the one where she was being helped into the SUV a couple of years ago.

[nolabear]

45. Oh, they'll take anything and use it. They're trying to bully her and us.

Shake it off. It's the best way to rob them of their power.

[Sancho]

16. You can see her kick off her shoes at the bottom steps...

clearly they were slipping, and she knew it.

[democratisphere]

19. HRC needs a pair of mountain climbing shoes.

[mythology]

48. My knee cringed on that second slip

Hopefully she recovers well, although in relative terms, a hairline fracture while painful, isn't a big deal, provided you take it easy and let it heal.

[betsuni]

8. Saw this and immediately went over to jackpineradicals.com

Was not disappointed. Conspiracy theories about Hillary's secret health/mental etc. problems on full display. It never ends.

[Cha]

10. omg.. they're so predictable.

Hillary obviously went through a falling stage.. glad it wasn't so bad.. hopefully the 3rd time is the end of it.

I've had stages like that myself. I call myself a klutz.. and then it's over. Until the next "shit happens" come along.

[betsuni]

13. I fall all the time.

The last time was when I tripped and thought I could recover but lurched forward, eventually realizing that I could not fight gravity and gave in and went down. Bloody knee, groceries and belongings scattered. Luckily there were no witnesses. Thinking of slippery shoes, I relive the humiliation of a spectacular tumble in college while going down the library's carpeted stairs. I slipped and caught myself, slipped again and went down, my dress riding up to display my underwear which of course was my worst pair, grandma high rises. And of course the boy I had a crush on was right there. The librarian said she'd never seen anyone fall down the stairs so dramatically. Well. I hate shoes. There is always trouble.

[Cha]

17. It's so Good to have those falls

in the past! At least the stairs were carpeted, eh.. to lessen the blows. But you did have to be wearing a dress when you had your spectacular fall, and your grandma underpants. you poor thing.. humiliation at the time.. can you laugh at it now?

I won't go into my falls.. hasn't happened lately, so Knock on wood! I just keeping running into things.. leaping before checking out all the possible ways I can scrape myself.. have a bandaid on now from a fresh draw of blood last night. smh!

Tripping is the worst.. like "who put that there when I wasn't noticing?!"

[ismnotwasm]

21. I rolled my ankle a couple of months ago

Hurts like hell. I was so thankful it wasn’t a fracture though

[mopinko]

32. i fall all the time, too. i have learned how

to do a prat fall. i dont get hurt too often. occasional bruised knee.

learned to do a prat fall by accident. long story. but it has come in handy.

[nadine_mn]

58. I too fall all the time and have learned ways to minimize

Injury...mainly don't fight it and go limp. But again, I fall so often that I'm kinda used to it. I was walking my German shepherd last summer and tripped on a dandelion, blade of grass, air?? and like the pro I am...managed to hang onto the leash (busy road and fear of my dog getting spooked and running into traffic), fling the full poop bag off to the side so I didn't face plant in it and made sure not to break my glasses on the stone retaining wall next to where I fell...in a split second.

I also once slipped on sheet ice stepping out of our car while holding a bottle of wine...managed to fall and still keep the bottle clear and intact.

Those stairs in the video...I would have either just said fuck it and sat my ass down scooted or taken off my shoes. But HRC is classy and handled it way better.

People wonder why I prefer going barefoot...I trust my feet more than shoes.

[ismnotwasm]

20. The RW was saying typical shitty things

But THOSE assholes jumping all over it as well? Jesus.

[yardwork]

22. That site is funded by Russians and full of Russian bots.

Any actual living persons affiliated with that site have been conned and duped.

Did they ever ask where the money came from to set up and maintain the site?

[Ninsianna]

24. Guessing those Russian dudes never visited India,

Especially old structures, those surfaces are not even, no hand rails, probably fine if you're barefiot, bit shoes are hazardous.

[betsuni]

28. Tonight saw a show about a Japanese TV crew allowed to climb up an Egyptian pyramid.

Scary! I'd NEVER climb up big old rocks. I like inside, inside is good.

[Ninsianna]

30. I was in India recently, was really wary of stairs.

And thise were nice ones, in good repair, inside my grandpa's house!

[MrsCoffee]

25. What a bunch of deplorables.

Disgusting.

[Tom Rinaldo]

23. I'm glad it was only a hairline fracture. She should be able to heal fully

Meanwhile her mind remains as nimble as a thirty year old's. Get well soon Madam Secretary.

[mcar]

26. Hope she heals quickly and well

[sarcasmo]

31. Thick slippers are bad, my mom (70) threw her slippers out after she fell.

[cpamomfromtexas]

33. This is what levaquin for pneumonia can do to you

I hope someone who knows her can get her to Dr Kendall Stewart in Austin Texas.

Some damage will stay forever but the balance issues he can help.

[Me.]

42. It Seems The Deplorables Are Earning Their Name

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

53. So sorry to hear this, and I hope she recovers quickly.

Generally a hairline fracture should heal readily.

[CentralMass]

56. It looks she was wearing some light sandals that had very poor traction

[area51]

63. Get well soon! n/t

[smirkymonkey]

65. I'm so sorry for her injury, and it makes me sick that people are making fun of her because

of it. It's true that once you get to be a certain age that your sense of balance diminishes and your bones are more brittle (especially if you are a woman). I am 25 years younger than she is and I have already noticed my sense of balance going. I always use the handrail, especially when going downstairs.

It's completely normal and natural. It's obvious that Trump has the same problem with stairs as well. I would love to see him take a major digger, lets see how the deplorables deal with that!

[Demsrule86]

66. feel better Hillary.

Still love you...you may not be in the White House (God help us) be we know you won.

[IluvPitties]

67. Always when one is having a wonderful time!

I hope it heals quickly!