{"id":288,"date":"2010-04-24T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.llenrocweb.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2016-12-22T19:38:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T03:38:32","slug":"broken-hip-sidelines-gramma-dorothy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/llenrocfarm.com\/archived\/broken-hip-sidelines-gramma-dorothy\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Hip Sidelines Gramma Dorothy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>Many of you may not know that Dorothy broke her hip on Sunday, March 28 while she was home alone at her place in Juanita Bay.\u00a0 She is currently recovering at the Life Care Center in Kirkland where it is our hope that she can regain enough mobility to return to her place at The Gardens at Juanita Bay.<\/p>\n

Apparently, she fell sometime\u00a0 in the morning and was able to get to the phone to contact the nurse\u2019s station.\u00a0 She was taken over to Evergreen Medical Center in Kirkland.\u00a0 They diagnosed her with a fracture of her left hip.\u00a0 There was no displacement, the fracture only went part way through.\u00a0 Francie went over as soon as she heard about it and the doctors decided that the best thing to do was to put in a plate and screws so that it could heal.\u00a0 However, in doing the work-up for the relatively minor surgery, they decided that her heart and lungs may not be strong enough.\u00a0 After more consultations with both orthopedic surgeons and eldercare specialists, it was then decided to try to see if she could recover enough to be able to get around with a walker.<\/p>\n

She had to stay a couple more days at the hospital after they found that she also had a touch of pneumonia, but then was moved to where she is now.\u00a0 For the first few days after the accident, and due to the pain medication, she drifted in and out of awareness so it was difficult to communicate with her, but she became much more vibrant and communicative after the pain medication was discontinued.\u00a0 She currently has limited mobility but is able to sit up in bed and in a wheelchair, and is undergoing Occupational Therapy which is helping her adjust to her new limitations.\u00a0 The staff feel that if she continues to progress and regain upper body strength, she will be able to use a walker, but the Physical Therapist thinks that it might take 2-3 months before we know if the hip is healed.<\/p>\n

Colleen and I flew up on Saturday, April 3, and Evelyn arrived on Easter Sunday.\u00a0 Bob and Elaine drove over from Sequim so she had a full house for a couple of days.\u00a0 Colleen and I returned home on the 12th<\/sup> and Evelyn stayed a few days longer.\u00a0 Francie and Per continue to look in on her several times daily, and she appears to have adjusted to her situation, but more importantly, understands that she can return home if she continues to work to regain her strength.<\/p>\n

She loves cards and letters, so if you would like to send her a note, the address is:<\/p>\n

Life Care Center
\nDorothy Caldwell, Room 41
\n10101 NE 120th St.
\nKirkland 98034<\/strong><\/p>\n


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Many of you may not know that Dorothy broke her hip on Sunday, March 28 while she was home alone at her place in Juanita Bay. She is currently recovering at the Life Care Center in Kirkland where it is our hope that she can regain enough mobility to return to her place at The Gardens at Juanita Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/llenrocfarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/llenrocfarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/llenrocfarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llenrocfarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llenrocfarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/llenrocfarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llenrocfarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/llenrocfarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llenrocfarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llenrocfarm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}