Why are hip fractures in the elderly so deadly?
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I broke my pelvis at the age of 26. I have broken quite a few bones in my life…fingers, arms, spine (twice). *Nothing* more painful or debilitating than the pelvis. Six weeks staring at a ceiling in Bethesda Naval Hospital. Re-learned how to walk in the pool in the basement of the hospital.
I was young and athletic…and the recovery was looong. (I couldn’t have the pelvis surgically repaired because I worked in nuclear reactors and couldn’t have metal in my body).
My mother fell and broke her pelvis at the age of 78. Surgery…threw a bunch of clots and died 48 hours later.
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