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To: grayboots

This usually spells the beginning of the end for the elderly...a fall, a pelvic fracture, ribs, whatever, it begins a downward spiral...


10 posted on 11/08/2018 6:18:19 AM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.i)
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To: Netz

Bones don’t heal so well at that age.


12 posted on 11/08/2018 6:19:56 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Netz

You are absolutely correct...it occurred with 3 beloved relatives.


46 posted on 11/08/2018 7:41:03 AM PST by EODGUY ("You don't have to go home.......but you can't stay here" Joliet Jake)
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To: Netz
This usually spells the beginning of the end for the elderly...

Exactly what happened to my mother. She fell on the stairs and broke her wrist, which started a steady downward spiral the next year or two.

83 posted on 11/08/2018 9:03:01 AM PST by IndyTiger
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To: Netz
This usually spells the beginning of the end for the elderly...a fall, a pelvic fracture, ribs, whatever, it begins a downward spiral...

Yep. And the ribs could actually have been broken by undetected metastatic cancer.

109 posted on 11/08/2018 10:15:08 AM PST by rexthecat
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