for those interested, an update on my Mom ...
Posted by
call me Ishmael (aka pacrat)
Apr 23 '16, 20:22
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so, Thursday she fell down some steps and hurt herself pretty good. Turns out she broke a bone in her ankle as well as one of the bones in her lower leg down close to the ankle. she also broke a vertebra in the lower thoracic section close to the lumbar vertebrae ...
she's still at the hospital. they have her foot in a bootie off and on for most of the day, and have her in a back brace.
a specialist (orthapedic? neurosurgeron? spinal specialist? i forget now) has seen her and wants to use the brace for a few weeks to start. says that surgery is not an immediate necessity right now. there is some sort of procedure that they can do in office that he's talking about ... i'm still not sure what it is. i haven't talked to the doctor myself yet.
anyway, the good in all of this is that it could have been a lot worse. she's not experiencing any paralysis or anything.
she's just got a good couple of months ahead of her in recovery and doing some physical therapy and such along the way.
looks like i'm going to be spending a lot of time in the next couple of weeks helping out around their house. He Who We Speak Not Of is not in good enough health himself to do much to begin with. but that's another story for another time. the point is that Mum's going to need me around a bit more than usual for a few weeks at least ...
anyway .... thanks for the positive thoughts since and moving forward :)
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