Actor had injuries to left arm after gondola accident
JACKSON, Miss. -- Morgan Freeman is doing well after operating theatre to reconnect nerves and repair terms to his left arm and hand after rescuers used a jaws-of-life machine to free him and a passenger from the wreckage of his elevator car, his publicist said Tuesday.
Freeman, 71, and Demaris Meyer, 48, of Memphis, were taken to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis after the Sunday night accident on a dark stretch of rural Mississippi Delta highway in Tallahatchie County.
State troopers said the car careened off the highway and flipped end-over-end before landing upright in a ditch.
The surgery Monday night "lasted approximately 4 1/2 hours including recovery and he is in good hard liquor and was visiting fellowship members this morning," Donna Lee, the Oscar-winning actor's publicist, aforementioned in a statement.
"He was walking this a.m., and is looking onwards to his release as soon as possible," Lee said.
Freeman was airlifted around 90 miles to the Regional Medical Center where he was treated for a broken arm, broken elbow and shoulder harm, Lee said.
Bill Rogers, a retired law officer, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that he witnessed the accident near the small townspeople of Charleston, not far from where Freeman owns a place with his wife.
Rogers said Freeman complained of bother from injuries before organism loaded onto a medical helicopter, just "was more concerned around the mass around him than himself."
"Mr. Freeman thought process he crataegus oxycantha have gone to sleep, but he wasn't sure," Rogers aforesaid. "He didn't know what happened."
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