We are back from NC....left last night at 7 and got home this morning about 8....I always say, Theres no place like home!" It is freezing here. Yesterday it was in the high 70s..plus we turned the heat down while we were gone...brrrrrrrr.

Thanks for all the good thoughts everyone. Surgery was put off till tomorrow so they could transfuse her. Her blood platlets were too low for surgery. Now we're looking for 11 tomorrow. She was pretty confused this afternoon when I was visiting.

I'm very glad to hear that your daughter won't be ungoing surgery Karen. You must be very relieved.

Glad to hear your daughter is doing well, Karen, and doesn't need the surgery. By the way, how does your son like Santa Monica?

Good luck dealing with your mother-in-law, Patti. We have a 95-year-old neighbor who always seems to be falling, breaking something, and then recovering. She's frail, but amazingly strong. But she doesn't have dementia--at least not as far as I can tell.

Sorry to hear about your mother in law's accident Patty. Hope the surgery and recovery go well. At least you live close and will be able to be supportive.

My daughter is recovering from her fall and will not have to have surgery. That was a big relief for me. Now if we can just get workman's comp to be upstanding and pay the medical bills .... they never make it easy.

Rainy here today and in the 60's so far. Leaves are falling and unimpressive but we are going to visit friends in the GA mountains this weekend for an Apple Festival and I hear its pretty there.

hi pat. my mother went through that and it was a mixed result because of the dimentia. the hip surgery is one of those miracles of medicine that goes very well. my expereience and opinion to a certain degree is that the recovery time is not too bad except if the patient has dimentia. what is not that long of a time to be immobilized can be enough- like the straw that breaks that camels back- to be too much for this patient. maybe you could ask about special compensations that could help her spirit while she is immobilized. i am certainly no expert of any kind, but i think encouragement in every form without being over the top is a good thing. maybe not encouragement exactly, but reassurance- some focused attention fairly often from any of you that she remembers could be good.

Dave's mom fell last night and broke her hip. She is scheduled for hip replacement surgery tomorow afternoon. This will be a difficult recovery as she suffers from dimentia.

This is about a UVM student. Tragically, the young lady's body was locatd by hikers yesterday. No one has been arested yet but a man is being watched. The student had dined with her parents; who had come up for the weekend from NJ. She went out with friends afterwards and after leaving them was murdered. It has been about a week now since she went missing. An awful situation.

What happened with the UVM student? We don't seem to get the news out here in L.A. At least, I didn't notice it in the paper. Maybe it was on TV, but I don't watch much TV anymore.