I don’t know how or when she went to the hospital but ALL of the symptoms she’s been displaying recently - frailness, wearing gloves to hide bruises on her hands, now the fall - are consistent with her having advanced vascular disease. It’s also been previously reported that she has low blood pressure which is another sign of geriatric vascular disease. If her extremities fall asleep often, which happens a lot for seniors that have vascular disease, she’s probably bumping them and causing the bruises which take months for someone with low-blood-pressure to heal. Hence the gloves. Vascular disease also causes sufferers to pass out due to the low blood pressure. Likely what happened before she fell. If she really did break three ribs and has low blood pressure it will be nigh impossible for her body to ever heal completely from the injury. Her veins are likely collapsing due to low blood pressure already so it will be very hard for her body get enough blood to the damaged ribs to heal them in anything less than eight months. Transfusions help immediately after the fall occurs but only the body can long-term heal itself. I had a relative who finally succumbed to vascular disease and her symptoms are very similar to his.
@jyol9 you have the best response on the thread to @trueblackman’s question.
Thanks for the detailed information.