Lula details bathroom fall, feared serious brain injury

President Lula sustained a significant head injury requiring hospitalization and ongoing medical monitoring, with temporary restrictions on his official duties and international travel.

In the private geometry of a palace bathroom, a small miscalculation — a body shifted instead of a stool — brought the president of Brazil to the floor and briefly, in his own mind, to the edge of catastrophe. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva struck his head hard enough to fear a fractured skull, and though the damage proved less severe than that first terror suggested, it has been serious enough to suspend his presence on the world stage for weeks. The mundane and the consequential have rarely been so plainly intertwined: a nail-trimming routine has reshaped the diplomatic calendar of the hemisphere

Lula details bathroom fall, feared serious brain injury

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