CNN/Reuters: Stones deny Richards suffered brain damage

[DeepModem Mom]

Stones deny Richards suffered brain damage
Guitarist 'continues to improve,' says statement
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, recovering from a head injury caused by a fall last month in Fiji, has not suffered brain damage, a spokeswoman for the band said on Tuesday.

The Stones' New York-based publicist, Fran Curtis, issued a statement denying a report in the New Zealand Herald that Richards, 62, had undergone two surgeries and that doctors were concerned about brain damage.

"Keith Richards did not undergo a second operation. The first and only operation was done on Monday, May 8, and was 100 percent successful," the band's statement said. "There was no brain damage. He continues to improve as expected."

The European leg of the band's "A Bigger Bang" world tour would begin in June, the statement said.

The hard-living Richards, a founding member and mainstay of the band with lead singer Mick Jagger since the Stones formed in the early 1960s, has been in Auckland, New Zealand, under medical observation and treatment since taking a fall while on vacation in the island resort of Fiji in late April....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/10/people.richards.reut/index.html

[Rambis]

1. and how could they tell exactly?

god speed man!

[xultar]

3. DAYUM! Great minds think alike. I was just about to post that!

Anyways...

God speed Keith!

[Missy M]

6. The doctors tell you there is none but that is not always true...

having gone through brain surgeries with a family member the damage is there, slight and subtle but I know there was brain damage.

[liberalpress]

2. And if he did, you could tell how?

[Captain Hilts]

4. What time frame are they using? nt

[hippiechick]

5. ... as well-pickled as his body may be ...

.... I'm afraid the remaining unsinged brain cells would have an uphill battle from a serious fall.

[jojo54]

7. Just send Dr. Bill a video...

he'll tell ya!!!! :sarcasm:

[Julius Civitatus]

8. How can they tell the difference?

Seriously.

[Brotherjohn]

9. They're speaking relatively. Every brain cell has already been damaged.

A head injury couldn't really make things worse.