Up and Walking Again: Hip Fracture Recovery Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe hip fracture and recovery, from the fall itself to a year on. Many writers are in their seventies, eighties and nineties, including a wheat farmer who slipped off a grain truck at 91 and a woman of 93 who has broken both hips; others are younger, among them a dental hygienist hurt in a crash, a nurse whose running ended in a fracture at 33 and a cyclist hit by a van at 28. Sons, daughters and a daughter-in-law write as caregivers, including for parents with dementia. They write from Tucson to Naxos and Saskatoon to Nairobi. Treatments include surgery within days, a second operation, a break around an old hip replacement and two months on a rehabilitation ward. Writers describe frightening hallucinations in hospital, a blood clot, fear of pain pills, Parkinson's, years of steroid tablets and osteoporosis found after the fall. Daily life runs throughout: a long-handled shoehorn, a husband learning to cook, a balance class, a ferry and a helicopter from an island, six days waiting for a bed. Not every outcome is bright. One daughter describes her mother choosing comfort rather than surgery, and missing her now; some writers walk with a stick for good, and several carry the fright long after the bone has healed.

Who it's for

For anyone recovering from a broken hip, and for the sons, daughters, partners and neighbours sitting beside the hospital bed and planning the return home.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 241 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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