Last month, he revealed that he can now wear clear glasses but said he may be permanently blind in his right eye.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, 75, talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, January 22, 2015, for the first time since he suffered an eye injury and broken ribs on New Year’s Day accident while exercising at his home in Henderson. The band’s elastic resistance works the body’s muscle groups and bones while stretching it during a variety of exercises.
“The TheraBand was mounted to a sturdy object in his bathroom”, the lawsuit continues. Reid says he suffered severe pain and injuries as a result of the mishap, including broken ribs and orbital bones, severe disfigurement, facial lacerations and bruising, a concussion, scarring and loss of vision in his right eye. Harry Reid is suing the three exercise companies that manufacture the TheraBand that snapped and lacerated his face for negligence. It seeks damages for Landra Gould for the loss of marital consortium.
An appropriate warning would have prompted Reid “to take precautions to avoid his injuries”, according to the complaint.
The complaint also alleges Reid’s injuries could impact his ability to secure employment, despite the fact that the senator plans on retiring at the end of his current Senate term in 2017.
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Reid maintained that his decision to retire was not linked to health concerns, nor to the prospect of facing an uphill re-election campaign in 2016. “And as a result of that, I’m not going to run for re-election”.
