"I'll be waiting!"
Posted on 05/13/2019 1:42:44 PM PDT by jazusamo
Former President Jimmy Carter is recovering at a Georgia hospital after he underwent surgery to repair a broken hip suffered in a fall at his home Monday morning.
A statement from the Atlanta-based Carter Center said the 94-year-old Carter fell while leaving to go turkey hunting and underwent successful surgery to repair his hip at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus.
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Only the good die young.
He will die soon.....
R.I.P.
Yep, though I hate to see him go through this and he’ll be lucky to survive it.
A broken hip is not good in a 94-year old, but Carter has already survived brain cancer.
ooh... not good.
What actually happens is your hip breaks THEN you fall. It means your bones are deteriorating.
Beat me to it.
My Father fell at age 89 and broke his hip in 4 places.
The surgery was successful and the bones healed but he never really recovered. Never walked again.
"I'll be waiting!"
Broken hip can be a killer, man of his age.
This usually doesn’t end well.
According to a review of randomized controlled trials on hip fracture management, the mean 1-year mortality rate after hip fracture is 21 percent. This means four out of five elderly persons will survive the first year after a hip fracture. This rate of mortality has been basically unchanged since the 1980s while the mortality rates for other conditions have dropped substantially.
Several studies have shown that the all-cause mortality rate doubles for elderly patients after a hip fracture. A 2017 study that followed over 122,000 people in the United States and Europe found the all-cause mortality rate was doubled over the course of over 12 years in those who had a hip fracture. The increase in mortality was greatest in the first year after the fracture, almost three times as high as expected for the general geriatric population. It diminished over time but remained at nearly twice what was expected after eight years or more.
https://www.verywellhealth.com/how-dangerous-is-a-broken-hip-when-youre-older-2223520
You win the internet today!
My MIL broke hers at 82, it healed but she had to use a walker until she passed at 93.
Carter is 94 years old and was going turkey hunting. That is pretty active for 94. Unfortunately he won’t be going anywhere for a while.
So which Democrat was he hunting?
Broken hip or not...evil cuss.
When the hip or femur are broken there is a chance that some bone marrow, via the blood stream, might lodge in the lungs leading to pneumonia — can happen at any age with this type of break.
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