Not much to it. He fell in the night, probably stumbling around in the dark on the way to the kitchen.
AOSTA, Italy (AP)—Doctors say Pope Benedict XVI will have to stay in a cast for a month after breaking his right wrist in a fall in his chalet while vacationing in the Italian Alps.
Pierluigi Berti, the director of the Umberto Parini hospital in Aosta, said doctors had successfully performed a 20-minute operation and the pope would be released later Friday.
The surgery was performed under local anesthesia to reduce the fracture, a procedure to realign the broken bone fragments.
A Vatican statement said the 82-year-old pope fell in his room in a nearby chalet overnight and despite the accident, celebrated Mass and had breakfast before going to the hospital.
Thankfully it isn't anything worse than that.
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