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Date: October 05, 2013 12:01PM
She slipped and fell in the bathroom and broke both her legs, just above her artificial knees. She had osteoporosis pretty severely. The left leg was repaired the next day and she came thru pretty well. Four days later, the right leg was repaired, but she did not bounce back so well. She had an unresponsive spell three days after that, got sent to ICU for a day, then to telemetry, where they continued to monitor her. At 3:05AM on Sept 29, the hospital called and told me she'd passed. She was 80.
I went with two of my siblings to tell dad. He is very hard of hearing and would never have heard the phone.
My folks are Catholic, so Mom got to have the rosary said for her the night before her funeral, and a funeral Mass.
I miss her. But I am relieved in that I don't have to fear her falling anymore. She was a textbook example of a falls risk. She had a lot of pain from arthritis and polymyalgia. She had fallen 3 weeks before this last fall and had to have stitches to her right knee. I don't have to worry about her hurting. Pop didn't always know right away if she fell, becuase he is so hard of hearing.
For some time, I'd been calling her morning and evening to check on both of them. I miss being able to call her.
the other Susan