Oh drat

[bunn]

My mother has just called - she's now in a local rehabilitation unit  and was hoping to go home next week - to say that her doctor thinks she may have broken her leg when she broke her hip.   This is on the same leg, which also still has shingles. I may need to drive her back to Plymouth for another X-ray. 

I wish this had been noticed sooner, though I can kind of see that if you are looking at a leg that already has a broken hip and shingles, you aren't going to immediately assume that it's broken as well.   Bummitude.

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I took her in for an X-ray of ankle & lower leg this morning - now waiting to hear officially back from the hospital but the X-ray zappy man - radiologist? said he thought not. He also looked at it and made expensive-plumber noises and said it looked very nasty. It is very swollen and painful. :-(

I just hope she doesn't fall over again - I left her in the waiting room at the hospital while I went and fetched the car (Tavi hospital only has about 5 car parking spaces) and by the time I got back she had beetled out on her crutches and was standing in the rain by the roadside!

I can't blame her really as she has been stuck inside hospitals for weeks - I suspect I would do the same - but none the less, if she falls over and knackers something else then she really will be in a mess.

She does seem to be a lot perkier than she was: the rehabilitation unit where she is staying is quite pleasant in a shabby kind of way. My mum is also pleasant if a little shabby, so she fits right in :-D