ELVIS BREAKS HIS FINGER PLAYING TOUCH FOOTBALL October 16, 1960 Elvis breaks his finger playing touch football at Graceland. Elvis was first treated first at Campbell Clinic, where doctors decided to transfer him to the hospital because they didnt have enough space to accommodate the anticipated large number of visitors. His touch football teammates and Anita Wood, disk jockey and Elvis frequent companion when he is in Memphis, accompanied him to the hospital. Image Elvis breaks his finger playing touch football at Graceland, Elvis visits a hospital and goes home after spending one night, declaring I Dont Have Any Business in a Hospital Elvis spends one night in Hospital, declaring I dont have any business in a Hospital and checking out the following morning. Elvis said, I dont mind hospitals - this one is really fine - but I dont have any business here. Things like this happen every day. Im ready to get out of here. To prove his point he accommodated a student nurse by signing his autograph with his right hand - the one on which the little finger was broken. Explaining how he came to break his finger, Elvis said I got my man, too - and he was just a step or two away from a touchdown. I dived for him, see, and after tagging him my hand landed in some mud and buried up in it. At first I didnt notice it - it didnt hurt me at all - until one of the fellows told me the little finger was bent all the way over the other fingers. No, it wont affect my strumming a guitar. I dont know how long Ill have to wear the cast - just a few days, I think. Elvis was dressed and ready to leave the hospital but his doctors were wanting him to stay another 24 hours. Elvis himself was more concerned about a slight cold and a sore throat he had today. My ice pack melted and the water spilled on me somehow he said.Im also still groggy from the sodium pentothal they used when they set my finger. It sure knocked me out. Through out the night and morning, a steady procession of registered nurses, student nurses and nurses aides - young and old - filed into Elvis room to take his temperature, check his pulse, give him a hypo to put him to sleep, ask what he wanted for breakfast - and ask for his autograph. The hospital posted a guard at the door to keep other visitors out. The rocknroll king had a hospital breakfast of oat-meal and bananas while he waited for his doctors word on whether he could be discharged. Elvis was discharged at 11:30 a.m.
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