On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 16:57:03 -0400 (EDT), Cheryl
> wrote:

>"Cheri" > Wrote in message:
>> "Cheryl" > wrote in message
>> web.com...
>>> can you email me? It's important, related to the life alert
>>> pendants we've had a lot of conversations about. I got a new
>>> computer and life has gotten hectic and I haven't had a chance to
>>> import my address book. I also can't believe my phone doesn't
>>> even have your email address saved.
>>>
>>> To others, without some way to get help might be the end of you.
>>> Just went through a horrific thing with my mom and even though
>>> she has a pendant she wasn't wearing it. She's going to be OK but
>>> only because some miracle happened. Very badly broken leg and
>>> already had surgery but at an advanced age I know it's going to
>>> be a slow recovery.
>>
>> Good wishes for your mother and hopefully the recovery is not as slow as
>> these things usually are.
>>
>> Cheri
>>
>>
>
>Thank you Cheri. I hope so too but her pain in trying to move even
> a little bit appears unbearable. It was broken pretty high up and
> close enough to her hip that they thought they might need to also
> replace the hip ball but luckily they got away with just having
> to insert a titanium rod down though just the femur.

That doesn't sound too serious and I hope she recovers quickly. It
might be a good idea to have her abode surveyed and outfitted for the
elderly and handicapped so she'll have less chance of accidents. She
also may be helped with a few weeks of rehab.

On Monday my wife will be having a double knee replacement. She's 70
and her doctors said if she waits much longer she may not be able to
have the knee replacement surgery. So she decided to bite the bullet
and do the double... otherwise next year she'd need to go through the
same thing all over again, why be out of commission for two years when
she will be over with the ordeal in one year, and it is an ordeal,
with lots of rehab. She's in great shape physically and not at all
over weight so her doctors recommended she do it all at once. She
decided she'll forego skiing this winter and resume playing golf come
spring... and she prefers to walk the course, she rarely takes a cart,
only if her partner can't walk. Next winter she hopes to resume
skiing but will begin with the bunny slopes and slowly work her way up
in difficulty as she can, but she's an excellent black diamond alpine
skier. but will likely decide to give up those tough courses, with
artificial knees she can't risk a fall.

Anyway once she can drive I will be having cataract surgery, for now
I'll need to bring her to rehab... we can't both not be able to drive.
I'm not looking forward to eye surgery, someone who can't even put
drops in my own eyes.. she'll do my drops and she wears contacts so is
used to futzing with eyes. Okay, her surgery is at 12:45 on Monday,
at Lennox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She will derive to Long Island
tomorrow and stay at her son's house and he will transport her
whereever. If everything goes well she'll be home in three weeks. I
have to stay here and hold down the fort and take care of the cats.
There's no room for me at her son's house anyway, when she visits she
usually sleeps on the couch but this time she'll sleep in one of the
grand's beds and they can take the couch. The first two weeks she'll
be having rehab at a special unit at the hospital so she'll have her
own room. She'll only be at her son's house one week and they will be
transporting her to rehab every day. Then her son will drive her here
in her car and the next day I will drive him to the Amtrack station in
Poughkeepsie where from there he can ride right to his office in
Manhattan. At first this seemed very convoluted but if all goes well
with the surgery it will be easy. She could have had the surgery here
but her surgeon has been treating her knees for some 15 years and he's
the best, the head of sports medicine at Lennox Hill, he treats all
the top atheletes... they come to him from all over the world.