Day 22 - Dead Man Walking

I've been researching and reading a lot about hip fractures on the web and I have found some sobering statistics. About 550,000 hip fractures occur every year; 90 percent of hip fractures occur with persons over 50. The most scary stat I read is that 15-35 percent of the patients who have surgery to repair a hip fracture, die within a year of surgery. Not good. On the bright side, 50 to 65 percent of patients who have hip surgery regain their previous level of function. I hope I fall in this statistic and not the dead man walking statistic.