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Sarah Palin updates husband Todd's condition after snowmobile crash

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sarah Palin has given more details on the injuries her husband suffered in a snowmobile accident in Alaska, saying he remains hospitalized with a collapsed lung, fractured ribs, and a broken clavicle and shoulder blade.

The former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee said in a Facebook post late Monday that Todd Palin was in intensive care. She said he was going back into surgery to repair multiple fractures.

Todd Palin is in intensive care at an Alaskan hospital with injuries including multiple broken and fractured ribs,...

Posted by Sarah Palin on Monday, March 14, 2016

She described her 51-year-old husband as tough, saying that "once he's cognizant, he'll probably ask docs to duct tape him up and he'll call it good."

Todd Palin's father, Jim, says the Sunday night crash happened about 70 miles north of the Palins' hometown of Wasilla.

Sarah Palin: Protesters engaged in "petty, punk-a** little thuggery" 04:28

Sarah Palin thanked supporters for their prayers, saying she appreciates the respect for her family's privacy.

After the accident, Sarah Palin cancelled a campaign event Monday in Arcadia, Florida for presidential candidate Donald Trump, but raised eyebrows with her comments at a Trump town hall in Tampa.

"What we don't have time for is all that petty, punk-a** little thuggery stuff that's been going on with these "protesters" who are doing nothing but wasting your time and trying to take away your First Amendment rights, your rights to assemble peacefully," Palin said. "And the media, being on the thugs' side. What the heck are you guys thinking, media? It doesn't make sense. Well, you all get it."

Palin told voters when someone is sick in your family, it puts things into perspective.

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