Actually, my mother was dismissed from the hospital early (that is, she was kicked out) because she was refusing to cooperate with physical therapy. And yet her recovery was very quick.

Go figure.

Also recall her making a demeaning personal attack on Trump in his first term. After that he fired many unfiltered verbal bullets at her.

Fortunately, she learned to fall while in rehabilitative care after the stroke and doesn’t seem to break anything. If that changes, all bets are off.

In his final years, my grandfather said that he didn’t break any bones when he fell because when he played football–captain of his college team–he learned how to fall. Roll with it, he said.

While Nancy Pelosi and I differ in our political stances, I wouldn’t wish a broken hip on anyone. I hope she recovers from it, though at her age, that is problematic.

A friend fell and broke bones in her wrist and forearm. While the bones healed, she did not, and died four months after her fall. She lived to be 88, and was active until her fall.

Warning! Warning! Pedantic prose ahead!

Silicon, the element, is used to make Silicone polymers such as silicone caulk, silicone oils, silicone coatings, silicone medical devices.

Silicon is used to make silicon dioxide crystals for microelectronic devices, but before that for old timey crystal radio sets. Natural crystaline silicon dioxide is most common as quartz. Inhalation of fine quartz dust leads to silicosis and lung cancer. ….

One potential juror stood up and declared that he had followed such stories and concluded that it wasn’t the stairs but that woman’s hip was about to go and it finally did.

I assume he was cancelled from the jury.