Rutherford County Mayor Joe Carr said in a social media video posted Friday that he planned to return to his office in a limited capacity on Monday, less than one week after he was hospitalized for injuries he sustained in a horseback accident on his Lascassas farm on Nov. 11.
Carr said in the video that the pain from nine broken ribs, a lacerated liver and a semi-collapsed lung is “pretty significant.” Rutherford County Emergency Medical Services transported Carr to a hospital in Murfreesboro, then transferred him to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
“(The pain) is as much as I’ve ever had to deal with,” he said in the video. “But we are progressing nicely.”…