A fractured ankle, a plane flight, a hospital visit and meetings with six senators all before the day’s over?
That was Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Monday, which started with her tripping and fracturing her ankle at New York’s La Guardia Airport en route to Washington to make her scheduled appointments on the Hill.
And apparently she didn’t let the pain stop her from boarding the plane — she didn’t seek medical attention until landing in the District.
After spending “less than two hours” at George Washington University hospital, the Supreme Court nominee was released with a “small fracture in her right ankle,” per a White House report.
Sure looked worse than that. She hobbled on crutches through the Hart Senate Office Building for her 2 p.m. meeting with Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, with a white hard cast that stopped just below her knee.
But will she follow the tradition of having people sign it?
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs found it a funny idea, joking at a press briefing Monday that “maybe we should get the senators to sign the [cast].”
