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[quote=Anonymous]Around a year ago or maybe a year and a half (I no longer remember) we moved my mom to an assisted living facility because was falling more frequently and needed people around who could help her up and check in on her daily etc. She continued to have some sporadic falls, and then about a week and a half ago had two falls in 12 hrs, one of which sent her to the ER. Then three days later she was at the doctor's office and fell again, this time fracturing her clavicle, and a vertebra. She was in the ER for two or three days waiting for a rehab bed to open up. She had been complaining of back pain that no one addressed for a week, and that's when they found the fractured vertebra and sent her into surgery to have a rod placed in her back. We don't know yet if they'll do surgery for the clavicle--it's wait and see at this point.

She's never been very active and I'm sure her lack of body strength is going to have a negative effect on her ability to heal. She's had other issues in life--in her late forties she stepped in a hole wrong and broke her leg to the point it needed a metal plate and multiple surgeries to repair, she's had a couple of other back surgeries for herniated disks etc. Her sister recently died of covid, and my stepfather has been gone many years, so she's lonely and depressed, but she's never been very social and won't socialize at the independent living place she lived or at the assisted living place. She wasn't exactly a Cracker Jack mother, so it's hard for us kids to want to pitch in and help out much. One of my brothers helps the most, and me second. The rest do little or nothing.

I guess I don't really have a question or need advice, just wanted to put this out there--maybe someone has been through something similar and can relate. I can relate to what someone on another post said insofar as science has made it possible for us to live longer than we really should in some cases. Why do surgery on someone who will likely end up dying of pneumonia because they can't get out of bed--how is my mom going to get out of bed with only one good arm, no real body strength, and back surgery. [/quote]

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