Something is missing here. A stable but fractured rib doesn't puncture the lung hours or days after the fracture. Something has to make that broken rib rip into his lung, after which he should have become short of breath fairly quickly. Maybe there was a second tramatic event to the broken rib? Otherwise, it doesn't make sense to me.
It happened a couple of hours after he went home and was in the bathroom. Other than that I don't know anything else. The wife told me she felt he was too sick to have been sent home. She's been raging about the VA all year. (This happened last year.)
I'm not really close to her, she has I love Clinton stickers on her fridge.