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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two Saturdays ago my mom (75) took a tumble and thought maybe she broke her foot. By the time I got to her house a couple hours later it was swelling up and beginning to bruise, but she insisted she could walk on it (and she was) and stubbornly would not go to the hospital, claiming she would see how she felt the next day. I helped her wrap it and she promised she would stay off of it and have my dad drive her to the hospital if it was worse.

Sunday it was worse but she said she would see her GP the following day, which she did. GP didn’t think it was broken, or at least that’s what my mom is claiming but who knows if she’s telling truth, because what doctor wouldn’t recommend an xray to be sure?

For the rest of the week she claimed it was “getting better”. Then on Friday she called and said it was hurting again and bruised all the way to her knee. She refused the hospital again. Then suddenly it was fine again until today.

Now she’s in excruciating pain and can’t walk on it anymore. She claims tomorrow she will call an orthopedic doctor her GP recommended, but I don’t believe her because she claims it’s “already Wednesday” and they likely won’t be able to see her until next week, and is coming up with excuses about how she doesn’t like how far away the office is, and maybe she should take the weekend to research.

She needs it xray’d NOW. I told her it’s been nearly two weeks, if it was broken, it’s setting already and she’s making it worse. [b]But she’s mad and told me to stay out of it and not “lecture her like a child”. So yeah. [/b]She does have medical anxiety and imagines worst case scenarios.

So what is a daughter to do? [/quote]

I think the bolded would have pi**ed me off so much that I'd tell her I'm not treating her like a child because I would have already physically dragged my child to the doctor because ignoring a broken bone is child abuse. And that you're happy to go that route. But don't come crying to me when you never walk the same again. And then I'd work on my dad behind the scenes. If he's lived with this he has ways of coaxing her.

I get the anxiety of imagining the worst case scenario, but what is actually worse than imagining it is living it.[/quote]

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