Saturday, November 27, 2010

Obama Gets 12 Stitches After Accidental Elbow to Mouth During Basketball Game

Rey Decerega, a director of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, has been identified as the person who accidentally elbowed Obama. Why are people throwing up elbows in a friendly game of basketball with the president?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101126/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama

"President Barack Obama needed 12 stitches in his upper lip after taking an errant elbow during a pickup basketball game Friday morning with family and friends visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House said.

First word of the injury came in a statement from press secretary Robert Gibbs nearly three hours after the incident.

The White House did not initially name the person who caused the injury, but identified him later Friday as Rey Decerega, director of programs for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

Obama received the stitches under local anesthesia in the doctor's office on the ground floor of the White House after returning home. Doctors used a smaller filament than typically used, which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch and leaves a smaller scar.
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