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Cover story for what? Parachute fouled in a HALO jump into North Korea? Supreme Court fight club? Cybernetic heart implant to keep her going another 30 years?

Old people can be stubborn. My grandfather injured his arm. When he was finally dragged in for an x-ray it was found to be broken. A week later the cast was itchy so he cut it off.

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.

"Cover story." Could be. The only way anyone could initially learn that Teddy Kennedy had glioblastoma was by carefully reading between the lines of the first NYT story about his condition. It did not directly mention his diagnosis but included a link to an article about the disease and its prognosis. Indeed, that was the only article at the time, including FNC articles, that even indirectly spilled the beans.

To see what her real condition is I'd look to ambiguous NYT and Wa. Po. articles about her current health. They're often written ambiguously, like old Pravada articles, to disclose the facts in a way designed to hide the real truth from us yokels while disclosing it to the "sensitive sophisticates" who are really in the know.