[unclebilly]

My dad fell 3 weeks ago today and broke his hip. Luckily, his neighbor stopped in the check on him. He was lying on the floor unable to get up and had been for hours. His blood sugar was at 14 after lying there probably most of the day. This tells me it was in the mid-high 20s when he fell which of course affects his balance.

He had surgery 2 days later and is still in the hospital. It took nearly a week to come out of a delirium. A week ago, they moved him to a transitional floor and are doing rehab when they can (he’s complaining of extreme pain in his ankle).

I spoke with him again today, he’s still totally confused. He asked me to get him out of there despite being completely unable to walk still.

It’s looking more and more like he won’t be returning home but we’ll see.

It’s heart wrenching, he’s only 80, and we knew this was coming. It’s part of his right to live at risk as opposed to living in an assisted living facility (or taking the help with his sugars control) where he likely wouldn’t have fallen.

At least now, he knows why is is there and what happened. Before the surgery, he didn’t believe his hip was broken and was quite confused as to where he was, why he was there, and how he got there. Also he hasn’t really acknowledged that his neighbor likely saved his life. I’d been trying to call him all day and would have called the police the next morning if I didn’t get him.