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And to add to the irony, she doesn't want to risk catching Covid or the flu, but kept my grandmother in the nursing home after Covid emerged and never pulled my great-grandmother out of the nursing home every flu season during her final years.
She had surgery this afternoon. It lasted 40 minutes and the doctor told me and my mom everything went smoothly and she's expected to have a smooth recovery and not have any issues moving forward. She'll spend the weekend at the hospital before returning to the nursing home.
We recently had Forum member who had a grandmother or mother who fell, quite old, had surgery and healed well.
As you likely know, at 96, every system your grandmother has is more fragile. She also is more prone to suffer from hospital induced confusion and from the bad effects of anethesia.
Falls, even withOUT fracture OFTEN are the beginning of the end, and they are inevitable in age, as it is a matter not of weakness but of balance changes in the brain. You can easily google this with "aging and fall prone".
For my own Mom it was a fall that took her out in her mid 90s. She fell backwards in bathroom hitting her head on the tub. Minor fall, no concussion, but involved hospitalization overnight to watch her, a placement of catheter, a subsequent bladder infection, then pneumonia, another UTI, and her already aging heart began to fail. She died some three months (very unpleasant ones for her) afterward, despite there having been no broken bones.
I wish you luck in this. But as I said, the future is just guesswork as with all things aging, and really as with all things medical.
Hoping you will update us.
Unrepaired the life expectancy would be about 6 months and the person would no doubt be bed bound.
Repaired, if she survives the surgery, the life expectancy might be the same or longer. (brilliant statement there)
But will she participate in rehab? Will she walk again? Will her quality of life be better or the same? You say she relies on a wheelchair so she probably will not participate in rehab nor will she walk again.
So my guess is that the surgery is for minimizing pain and discomfort.
All that depends on your grandma and what she does post surgery.
You might want to contact Hospice and she would no doubt qualify for Hospice. They would help manage pain and be another set of eyes on her in the Skilled Nursing facility.
Wishing her well!