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To: grayboots

Hope she gets better and recovers soon.

But it is definitely time for her to retire.


57 posted on 11/08/2018 7:54:40 AM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative
Hope she gets better and recovers soon.

That's an admirable sentiment, but it exceeds the bounds of reality.

Broken bones at Ruth's age are often a death sentence. She is already very weak and frail. At 85, and in her condition, her body is very likely incapable of healing three broken bones.

The stress of such a trauma alone, could (and often does) cascade into multiple system failures, any one of which can be fatal.

I think it's much more realistic to wish her the best outcome possible, under the circumstances. Perhaps that means forced retirement and round the clock hospice care through a slow and questionable recovery process.

My dad died at 87 last year after breaking a vertebra in his back. He was gone in less than three months. I watched him go through everything I described above.

125 posted on 11/08/2018 11:23:58 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left tpoo long, they become black rifles.)
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