I broke the neck of my femur when my Brompton did a flick roll underneath me around ten years ago. It was explained that while they might screw it a complete replacement was the alternative if that did not work.
In the event canulated screws did the job so I ended up with a surgical wound similar to a replacement but kept my own joint.
Was up next day and started physio within 48 hours, firstly the basics of using crutches to maove around then moving from standing to sitting and vv. Finally we tackled stairs. I was out witihn a week followed by 6 weeks in crutches. Think I was formally on sick leave but work supplied me with a laptop etc so I could keep myself in the loop.
In hospital I was, at 52, apart from somebody who'd come off a motorbike the youngest by 30 years. Others were all old men, at least one old enough to have served in WW2, who had fallen in or about their homes. Two were clearly demented.
My mother had both hips replaced after falls. The first in her mid eighties from which she recovered but never walked again without a frame at home and out of doors. She could manage with a stick but lack of confidence and a suspicion the tumble at home, she was on the floor all night, was down to cerebral insufficiency.
Lived long enough after to celebrate her 90th. Another tumble at home at 91 affected the other leg. By this time her ongoing congestive heart failure was too much and she died without being discharged.
Both were done under spinal block as she was way to high a risk for a GA.
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