As soon as life settles in..

something happens.  First of all mom's house is now listed.

That is a good thing. 

Unfortunately Thursday night my mom fell.  We don't know if her hip broke first and then she fell or not as the doctor said it may have happened that way as opposed to her falling and then breaking her hip. Because it happened in her bedroom, I didn't see her fall. All I know is when I went in, her left leg was underneath her and twisted in a weird way.

After lifting her to the chair and letting her try to relax a little bit, she wanted to try to get up and could not move her left side without hurting herself.  It became clear that we had to call an ambulance.  Then we were at the hospital until nearly midnight to find out she fractured her hip (at the ball, which broke off). 

They scheduled surgery for yesterday and although it went well, today she has slipped (although hopefully temporarily) into dementia.  She didn't know she was in a hospital and she wanted to keep trying to get up.  There are more complications but bottom line, she is not doing well.

My sister and I were both at the hospital at times. She hopefully is finally sleeping and we'll see what tomorrow holds. She is 90 1/2 years old so she is really elderly to take on this sort of injury.