U2 star Bono is set to spend Christmas in bed – as he can’t move after his bike accident surgery.
After the incident in New York’s Central Park he had to undergo five hours of gruelling surgery – and The Edge revealed Bono now “can’t move”.
He said: “He managed to come out of it with what you could only describe as injuries from a car crash, literally, multiple fractures of bones in his elbow and in his back. But he’s doing OK.
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“We’re kind of lucky he was wearing a helmet so he didn’t actually break Central Park. But he’s made of tough stuff and he’s bouncing back.
“He’s been told by his doctors that he’s got to stay put. He’s back in Dublin right now and basically he can’t move for the next couple of months.”
And the 54-year-old has been told nothing will heal if he moves at all.
He added: “The poor guy. Basically his left elbow was shattered so a lot of the work was reconstructing the joints and putting in wires and plates.
Can’t move: Bono has been banned from moving by doctors
“He actually showed us an X-ray a couple of days later and it looked like a miniature of the Eiffel Tower was in his elbow and then the same had to happen with a fracture of his pinky, the joint there was totally messed up, so that needed a bone graft.
“And the most vulnerable was actually his upper back, the scapula because they couldn’t put any plates in there or they decided not to do surgery.
“So he has got to be very still and not move around ’til that’s really healed. He’s doing physio to keep the joints active twice a day.”
On Wednesday U2 announced details of a major world tour, which includes “special shows” in Dublin.
