Tell your Mom, that back when my Mom fractured her pelvis (she was 86 at the time) I talked to my sports medicine doctor. He told me to tell her that 90 year olds can still improve their muscle tone, so getting better was do-able.
She also fell prior to that incident, in 2004, when her neighbor put up a Kerry sign on the fence that went up the side of a communal road in the section that was in front of her house (she lives at the opening of the road and her neighbor lived up the hill). She and her neighbor had an argument about it, the neighbor called the police on an 85 yr old...sheeesh...and my Mom told the police to "take me away then, because my husband didn't fly 35 missions over Germany in WWII and my son didn't go to Vietnam as a 101st Airborne Ranger with a Bronze Star to have the name of a traitor to this country put right up in front of my house!"
Sorry to those that have read this before...
Point being Merlinator...to tell Mom that she CAN recover---she's gotta want to. ALSO: VERY IMPORTANT... You have to monitor her progress, and constantly remind her what she did today, that she couldn't do yesterday. When you're in the thick of it, you don't see your progress, and it all just seems an endlessly frustrating string of days that you can't do what you used to.
If you help her to set goals (i.e. in three days, I'll be able to pick up ____ and do ____ with my left hand) and someone reminds you of your progress to meet those goals, and fawns over you when you do....YOU GET BETTER.
She needs you now...she needs a reliable, but honest "cheerleader."
Thanks for the encouragement and prayers. Your mom sounds like quite a charachter, very feisty like my mom. I saw my mom today and she seemed much better. Apparently the bone wasn’t broken clear through and they have it immobilized. It will have to be that way for a week and surgury isn’t needed. She lives at a retirement community which has a health center where she will stay for probably a week and then go back to her apartment with some help and therapy. She has a great attitude. With that and some prayers I think she will be fine soon. Again everyone, thanks for the prayers, I know they helped!