Just found out that my 72 year-old friend broke her hip!

[ellenrr]

2. good for your mom that she didn't need surgery--

sounds like she has made a good recovery, and at 94!
(my father is 96, in relatively good health happy to say)

I found out later, that my friend had a partial hip replacement.
which sounds to me like it must have been a pretty bad fall - maybe smashed some bones, so they couldn't be set...

I talked to her and she is lucid and upbeat, more so than I would have expected (maybe partially due to the pain meds.)

They told her she would be 6-8 weeks in recovery.
They also told her she would not ever be able to walk a lot, which to her is a huge loss- as she is a hiker.
But we'll see. Hopefully that prediction will turn out not to be true.