Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid was discharged from a Las Vegas hospital Friday, after sustaining some nasty injuries during his home exercise routine.
Kristen Orthman, Reid's deputy communications director, said Reid is on his way home to Henderson, Nev., after an overnight stay at University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
The Senate's top Democrat, 75, will return to Washington this weekend and is expected to be ready to do battle with Mitch McConnell and the Republican majority when the 114th Congress gets sworn in Tuesday.
"He spent the day with his wife, Landra, talking to fellow senators, friends and staff preparing for the Senate's return," Orthman said. "He sends his thanks to all those who sent him warm wishes and is ready to get back to work."
Reid broke several ribs and bones in his face when a piece of exercise equipment broke and he fell.
Adam Jentleson, the senator's communications director, told the Associated Press that the accident occurred when an elastic exercise band broke and hit Reid in the face, causing him to fall. As the senator fell, Jentleson said, Reid struck part of the equipment and broke several bones near his right eye. Reid then hit the floor and broke his ribs.
Jentleson said tests found no bleeding in his brain or other internal bleeding.
Reid's security detail first brought him to St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, a Las Vegas suburb, after the accident occurred New Year's Day. He was transferred to the University Medical Center in Las Vegas for further testing and was admitted "as a precaution," the senator's office said.
Eric Schultz, a White House spokesman, said President Obama telephoned Reid while vacationing in Hawaii to wish the senator a "full and speedy recovery."
"The president was glad to hear the leader is doing well, and will be back in Washington this weekend," Schultz said.
Dave Goldberg, Silicon Valley Executive, Died of Head Trauma, Mexican Official Says
SAN FRANCISCO — Dave Goldberg, the chief executive of SurveyMonkey and husband of Sheryl Sandberg
of Facebook, died of head trauma Friday night after he collapsed at the
gym at a private villa in Mexico, according to a Mexican government
official.
Mr.
Goldberg, 47, was on vacation with family and friends at a private
beach-front villa near the Four Seasons Resort in Punta Mita, a large
development with two hotels and numerous private residences close to
Puerto Vallarta in southwest Mexico, according to a spokesman for the
prosecutor’s office in Nayarit State.
Mr.
Goldberg left his room around 4 p.m. on Friday, collapsed while
exercising and died of head trauma and blood loss, said the spokesman.
His brother, Robert Goldberg, found him on the floor of a gym at around 7
p.m., with blood around him. The spokesman said it appeared “he fell
off the treadmill and cracked his head open.”
Mr.
Goldberg was transported to Hospital San Javier in Nuevo Vallarta, with
weak vital signs, and died there, said the spokesman, who added that
the episode appeared to be an accident. Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive
of Facebook and a friend of the family, had said the death occurred
while Mr. Goldberg was on vacation with Ms. Sandberg.
Mr. Goldberg’s death was announced by his brother and by SurveyMonkey on Saturday,
but no cause or details of where it occurred were disclosed at that
time. The lack of information prompted a wave of speculation about what
happened to Mr. Goldberg, who was well regarded as an entrepreneur and
mentor and was the less famous half of one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent power couples.
Ms. Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, has made no public statements about her husband’s death.
John
O’Sullivan, general manager of the Four Seasons Punta Mita, said in a
phone interview that there had not been any incident at the areas of the
resort managed by the company, which did not include the private villa
where Mr. Goldberg was staying.
The
family is planning an invitation-only celebration of Mr. Goldberg’s
life on Tuesday at Stanford Memorial Auditorium. Men planning to attend
were urged not to wear ties “in keeping with Dave’s lifelong hatred of
ties,” according to an emailed invitation sent to friends of the couple.
The invitation added, “Out of respect for the family, please do not
take pictures or post to social media” from the event.
The
Walt Disney Company said it would move the time of its second-quarter
earnings release on Tuesday so executives could attend the funeral. Ms.
Sandberg is a Disney board member.
Mr.
Goldberg, who worked at Yahoo and at a venture capital firm before
running SurveyMonkey, lived with Ms. Sandberg in Menlo Park, Calif. They
have two children. He is also survived by his mother, Paula Goldberg.
SurveyMonkey,
a start-up that makes web survey technology, has not yet named an
interim successor to Mr. Goldberg. Selina Tobaccowala is the company’s
president, and Tim Maly is its chief operating officer and chief
financial officer.
Correction: May 4, 2015
An earlier version of this article misstated the Mexican state represented by a prosecutor’s office spokesman who gave details of Mr. Goldberg’s death. It is Nayarit, not Jalisco.
An earlier version of this article misstated the Mexican state represented by a prosecutor’s office spokesman who gave details of Mr. Goldberg’s death. It is Nayarit, not Jalisco.
Correction: May 6, 2015
An article on Tuesday about the death of Dave Goldberg, chief executive of SurveyMonkey and husband of the Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, misstated his location at the time of his death. He was at a private villa near the Four Seasons Resort in Punta Minta, near Puerto Vallarta in southwest Mexico, not at the Four Seasons itself.
An article on Tuesday about the death of Dave Goldberg, chief executive of SurveyMonkey and husband of the Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, misstated his location at the time of his death. He was at a private villa near the Four Seasons Resort in Punta Minta, near Puerto Vallarta in southwest Mexico, not at the Four Seasons itself.
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