Senate Minority leader Harry Reid is working from home on orders of his doctor after he suffered from an eye injury that could result in blindness on his right eye.

He told KNPR that he got the injury while exercising on New Year's Day. The 75-year-old senator does yoga thrice a week which consist mainly of 250 sit-ups that he does using a resistance band.

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Unfortunately, the band broke and threw him backwards, causing him to hit several cabinets. Badly hit was his right eye, bones around his eye, and four ribs that broke.

For now, he temporarily lost vision on the damaged eye, although doctors hope it would still return.

As a result, Reid was absent on the first week of the opening of the 114^th Congress - which led to his demotion to minority leader from majority leader - and would miss next week's Democratic retreat in Baltimore because of the 60-minute drive from Washington, DC.

He sees the accident as a temporary setback and insists that he is still physically strong, boasting that despite having lived three-quarters of a century, he could still do 250 push-ups and strengthening exercises hundreds of times thrice weekly.

Reid added the accident isn't a factor to consider if he would seek re-election in 2016.

A former boxer, Reid joked, quoted by the Daily Beast, that he didn't get his black eye "by sparring Manny (Pacquiao) or challenging Floyd Mayweather, or bullriding, or riding motorcycle."

He pointed out that in his years as a boxer, "After any of those fights, I never looked like I do now." 

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