WASHINGTON, Mar 6 was to establish whether he had a brain.
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"I returned from a trip that I was on for a couple of days. I had terrible headaches. The diagnosis was… Be that as it may, they had to remove the top of my head a couple of times to see if I had a brain,» he said when talking to firefighters.
The head of state noted that he had he needed an urgent operation due to an aneurysm, but due to bad weather conditions, he could not get to the hospital even by a special aircraft. As a result, he was taken to a medical facility with the help of representatives of the fire service. As Biden noted, the nine-hour operation «saved his life.»
Earlier, the US president told a story about how a nurse after a craniotomy did for him «what they don't teach in medical school»: whispered in his ear to he felt a human connection.
The American media wrote about Biden's aneurysm-related operation when he was a senator in 1988.