Arnold Schwarzenegger recently underwent elbow surgery to address nerve damage. The 76-year-old Hollywood actor was spotted in California with a bandage on his right arm, and TMZ.com reports that he had the operation on Thursday (07.09.23) to fix nerve-related problems. As a result, he now has to wear a protective cast.
There is no further information available about Arnold’s health issues, and he has not yet made any public comments. Interestingly, news of this recent surgery comes just days after Arnold opened up about a scary turn of events during his heart surgery in 2018.
In a video on his ‘Arnold’s Pump Club’ fitness YouTube channel, he shared, “I remember when I had my open heart surgery, my third one… I was really freaking out. And I woke up all of the sudden and the doctor was standing in front of me, and saying ‘I’m so sorry, but unlike what we planned, a non-invasive surgery… we made a mistake and poked through the heart wall, and there was internal bleeding, and we had to open you up to save your life’.”
Despite this challenging situation, Arnold remained determined and focused on finding solutions. He emphasized the importance of not dwelling on the past, stating, “The bottom line is, you cannot roll the clock back. I was in the middle of a disaster… so now it’s about, ‘how do I get out of it?’ You have to shift gears.”
During his recovery, Arnold relied on the support of his friends to motivate him. He explained, “Getting discharged meant getting out of bed and start walking. First 10 steps, then longer and longer. I called my buddies in and said, ‘You guys have to fire me up. You have to count the number of steps that I’m doing.’ And this is what we did, everyday. Everybody came into the hospital, They said, ‘OK, Arnold, it’s time to get up!'”
Arnold was determined to recover quickly as he was only three months away from starting work on ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’. He expressed his need to be physically fit for the film, stating, “So I had to be in shape, I had to be able to move around, run around, lift things up, do the fight scene, all these things.” Through his positive attitude and the support system around him, Arnold successfully regained his health and was able to resume his work on the movie. He concluded, “And I did it! Because I had a positive attitude and knew exactly how I was going to get there. [And] I had the support system, because none of this we can do by ourselves… When I started shooting ‘Terminator 6’, I was all back together again.”