Merry-go-Round Ride Two

Early Monday morning, I got a call from the facility, my mom had fallen while in the bathroom by herself. Looked like her other hip was broken, she was on her way to the hospital.

Off I went and sure enough the hip was broken. This break must have been a bit more painful because she asked for pain killers this time. 

Because she was admitted in the morning her surgery would happen the following day probably in the afternoon. 

I don't remember a lot of events on this day. Did I bring Dad to see her? I don't know. The only thing that I do remember him saying in this week that related to her fall was the phrase, "When I saw her fall." He only said this once and when asked about the fall later he claimed not to have seen it. 

I did put in a call to Alexa, my helper. I wanted to know if there was any chance that the Garden would take mom in and do rehab there. She encouraged me to ask. She told me that she had problems getting people back to their facilities after falls and that skipping rehab and going straight from the hospital back to the Garden might avoid that. I figured I could use out patient rehab folks and pay for a senior exercise specialist to come work with mom on the off days.