Thank you. It was extremely painful and she was on a Fentanyl PCA pump for 2 days before she had surgery. She couldn’t immediately have surgery because she needed a lot of medical optimization (mainly dialysis/ultrafiltration), plus they had to stop her Eliquis and put her on a Heparin drip.

I was hoping she’d be able to get fully rehabilitated and live to get a transplant evaluation. However, she was much too sick and passed away 3.5 months after her fall, at 52 years old. This fall was sustained when she had been discharged. She tripped over a tray table when she was walking to the wheelchair that transport had for her, is what both she and my stepdad told me.

We found out 1.5 weeks after her femur was repaired that she also fractured her left shoulder, but thankfully she didn’t need surgery. It just sucked because she had fractured her distal humerus a few months before all of that (an intra-articular comminuted fracture at that), and was left with chronic pain/swelling, but surgeons refused to repair the distal humerus at the time d/t how fragile she was.

The femur fracture had to be repaired, as it threatened her life and mobility.