Hey all, just typing this as i'm not really sure what to do right now..
My Great Aunt is 89, 90 in July, and has Artheritis which is in her lower back, making walking very hard (1 or 2 sticks, or a walker required) and her hands are not very strong at all, she struggles to grip many things.
Well today, things just got 10x worse
She was in her flat in the retirement home she's in, got up from her chair, went to turn on the TV, turned it on, turned around to go back to her chair, and must have lost her balance, from what we can see she fell back and to the right, hitting the back of her head on the door, falling down, damaging her wrist, and, unbeknown to us until later, breaking her hip She must have knocked herself silly and struggled over to the phone, which was, as she said about 50 minutes (and 2 metres, if that) so I can only imagine the pain she was in when I heard her on the phone saying "Can you come over please? I've had a fall, I think i've broken my hip" to which I went into panic mode and my Mum and I rushed over there, to see and help her, when we got there she'd dragged herself to the window/phone area and called us, and was laying propped up in the corner, she was able to move her toes and fingers etc.. but a horrible sight to see someone you love in such agony
I rushed and called a paramedic, who got an ambulance sorted and after oxygen, morphene etc.. got her loaded in the ambulance and moved to the Infirmary, that was about 6pm!
Just had a call from my parents, who have been there for 5 hours now, saying she's had stitches where she cut and bust her head open, her wrist is ok, the fall and her Artheritis in it made it swell and appear broken, but not, thankfully, but alas her hip is broken, and she'll need a partial replacement. I really have no idea how long she'll be out of comission for, or where she'll have to go (back to retirement home, or into care?) when she is released from hospital, I know she'll panic as her best friend at her flats had a hip replacement last year, which caused a heart attack that killed her, and she only lost her sister (My Grab) last January.
A thousand thoughts are running through my mind right now, and I have no idea how long she'll be spending in the hospital, many weeks i'm sure, but can anyone with any knowlege here spread any help? I would just go and google it, but they say it helps to talk about things, too.
Thanks!
Hope you get better soon Auntie Rose
My Great Aunt is 89, 90 in July, and has Artheritis which is in her lower back, making walking very hard (1 or 2 sticks, or a walker required) and her hands are not very strong at all, she struggles to grip many things.
Well today, things just got 10x worse
She was in her flat in the retirement home she's in, got up from her chair, went to turn on the TV, turned it on, turned around to go back to her chair, and must have lost her balance, from what we can see she fell back and to the right, hitting the back of her head on the door, falling down, damaging her wrist, and, unbeknown to us until later, breaking her hip She must have knocked herself silly and struggled over to the phone, which was, as she said about 50 minutes (and 2 metres, if that) so I can only imagine the pain she was in when I heard her on the phone saying "Can you come over please? I've had a fall, I think i've broken my hip" to which I went into panic mode and my Mum and I rushed over there, to see and help her, when we got there she'd dragged herself to the window/phone area and called us, and was laying propped up in the corner, she was able to move her toes and fingers etc.. but a horrible sight to see someone you love in such agony I rushed and called a paramedic, who got an ambulance sorted and after oxygen, morphene etc.. got her loaded in the ambulance and moved to the Infirmary, that was about 6pm!
Just had a call from my parents, who have been there for 5 hours now, saying she's had stitches where she cut and bust her head open, her wrist is ok, the fall and her Artheritis in it made it swell and appear broken, but not, thankfully, but alas her hip is broken, and she'll need a partial replacement. I really have no idea how long she'll be out of comission for, or where she'll have to go (back to retirement home, or into care?) when she is released from hospital, I know she'll panic as her best friend at her flats had a hip replacement last year, which caused a heart attack that killed her, and she only lost her sister (My Grab) last January.
A thousand thoughts are running through my mind right now, and I have no idea how long she'll be spending in the hospital, many weeks i'm sure, but can anyone with any knowlege here spread any help? I would just go and google it, but they say it helps to talk about things, too.
Thanks!
Hope you get better soon Auntie Rose
Even giving one of the nurses the finger! But apparently down to the mix of new environment and the drugs they had her on, but she showed to be back to her "normal self" or as normal as you can get after a week in a bed with a shattered half hip, and she underwent an operation to replace the shattered half of her hip this evening, which by all accounts (Could only call due to it being late) was a success, the operation went as well as it could, and she's resting in bed on medication for the pain, stress etc.. 