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[buffys_beasley]

Mom has fallen yet again. I have not mentioned this on facebook. I actually tend to not post important stuff there, just trivial stuff. This is the fifth or sixth fall since last November. Her doctor had everything checked out this Spring after the third fall. Except that she has absolutely no muscle strength, there is no great terrible underlying

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[marlenedaily]

If there's any way you can try this...ask her to be on the floor for fifteen minutes and then get up, by herself, THEN, after she's achieved it, ask her to gauge how difficult it was for her without injury. Injury is worse. And will happen without you there. If she's determined to be independent, she should realize how much more she will have to be thinking about all the time.
If it's her stability, not her motorskills, maybe it would help her to get a modest electric chair or just a walker/seat for the most challenging areas. Inconvenient, but useful.

[rainbow]

*HUG*

would be possibly be interested in trying to build strength so that she's less vulnerable? the book "strong women stay young" is very, very basic but helps many older women. (my copy was lent and vanished, and i don't know if any of the women studied were in their 90s, but the the images of the changes in muscle in the women who went through it were pretty conclusive)

xoxoxo