[Magdalen] Fall Down Go Boom.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Louise... glad to hear it's getting better every day!
Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Louise Laughton" <llaug at twcny.rr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 2:34 PM
To: "magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Fall Down Go Boom.

> The evening of June 3, I was putting away clean dishes in the kitchen when 
> I found myself trying to manage a fall in progress. The landing was not 
> too hard, but my left leg was a floppy thing dragging behind me as I 
> shifted myself along through two rooms to get to a phone I could reach. 
> It's been an unpleasant time — orthopedic surgery for a femoral neck 
> fracture, 12-day hospital stay, physical therapy, etc. etc. I’m home and 
> relying on the kindness of others which has been overwhelming. My 
> daughter, who lives two states away with her family, was able to stay with 
> me for almost two weeks; maybe I can drive after an app’t with the surgeon 
> later this month. This is not my grandmother’s broken hip of some 65 years 
> ago. She was never able to live her real life again. They put a titanium 
> rod in my femur and had me on my feet the next day. It’s still walker only 
> for outside the house and night roaming inside, but I’ve graduated to a 
> cane for daytime indoors. Any time it’s ready to stop hurting will be fine 
> with me — it gets better each day.=