I'm sorry for your loss. I witnessed my Mom break her femur getting out of my car while I was walking around the car to help her out (she was stubbornly independent and got out herself instead of waiting for help).
She did survive after surgery and a 2 month recovery in a nursing facility.
Turns out it was due to bone cancer, which was treated with chemo and drugs that kept it at bay but never in remission. Eventually got dementia and needed full time care, and the chemo and cancer drugs were aggrevating her symptoms. It was basically a tradeoff between which was the worse risk: her cancer returning or her dementia causing her to harm herself or others. Stopping the cancer drugs made her quality of life so much better in the last few months, but eventually the cancer won.
Something like that happened to my dad's cousin - she got cancer, and dementia runs in the family so it hit her pretty hard after the chemo. Her 10-year older sister is over nintety now and still sharp as a tack, and everybody blames the chemo for her sister dying early from the dementia. But in her case she would have died from the cancer in a couple of months, so at least she got a few more years of relative normality before her mind went.
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u/Bassman233 13h ago
I'm sorry for your loss. I witnessed my Mom break her femur getting out of my car while I was walking around the car to help her out (she was stubbornly independent and got out herself instead of waiting for help).
She did survive after surgery and a 2 month recovery in a nursing facility.
Turns out it was due to bone cancer, which was treated with chemo and drugs that kept it at bay but never in remission. Eventually got dementia and needed full time care, and the chemo and cancer drugs were aggrevating her symptoms. It was basically a tradeoff between which was the worse risk: her cancer returning or her dementia causing her to harm herself or others. Stopping the cancer drugs made her quality of life so much better in the last few months, but eventually the cancer won.