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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really relate as my mom who is 79 just had a spinal fracture and while I’m hoping for a recovery I don’t know if that’s likely. She sounds a lot like your mom. Previously she had some mobility issues from back problems but was super social and totally independent. The parent really becomes the child in these situations and it does feel like you don’t have a parent anymore. It’s very painful to watch this kind of decline in someone you love.

This just happened to my mom recently so I’m still hoping she recovers but I don’t know how likely that is - based on your story maybe not likely.[/quote]

op - this is pretty much exactly what happened to my mom. It has rendered her totally immobile and in excruciating pain, made worse by mental health issues. they are now saying she needs fusion, but fusion i think needs some resilience to get to the other side of and i'm concerned aobut that piece. 
i'm sorry to hear about your mom - is she able to walk around at all? It's so hard. [/quote]

She can physically get around her condo but she’s in tremendous pain doing so. She’s widowed and we’ve had to hire an aide to help with meals, getting dressed, etc….for when I can’t be there. She knows she had prior compression fractures (they were seen on old imaging) but she was never aware she had those, this one is the bad one but there’s so much wrong with her back I don’t know if something surgical is an option. This just got bad about 10 days ago so still trying to be optimistic but I don’t know…

A fusion is tough although your mom is young enough that she might come through okay. [/quote]

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