BIL Broke His Hip

[Cody Fousnaugh]

Yesterday, got a call from my BIL (wife's younger brother) and he is in the hospital now. Last Wednesday evening, when he got home in Baca Raton, Florida, from helping a buddy, he decided to change his shoes and put on his flip flops to get his mail from a box by the street. He rents a room in a house, along with a younger guy. As he went to get his mail, the next-door neighbors Pit Bull got loose and ran toward him. He panicked, turned around very quickly, lost his balance and fell on the sidewalk. The dog nipped his ankle, but the BIL also broke his hip. The neighbor came out and called 911. He was taken to the ER and, from an x-ray, was told he had broke his hip and was getting surgery this next morning. He is scheduled to go to a Rehab Home for a couple of weeks. He can't go home, because he has nobody to take care of him or take him to Rehab. After a couple of weeks at the Rehab Home, it will be decided if he can go home or not.

After I had my hip replacement, rotator cuff surgery on each shoulder and now this prostate thing, my wife has been there for me 100%.

 

[Cody Fousnaugh]

Talked to him this morning, Monday August 11th. He got to the Rehab Center yesterday. The place is a combo of rehab and nursing home. The food is better than at the hospital and he is getting a little more sleep than he did in the hospital. However, I remember a nurse telling me, "a hospital isn't a hotel/motel, meaning that its purpose isn't for sleeping as much as for monitoring and taking vitals all night."

He has called the local police, fire department and animal control concerning the dog and his next step will be calling Morgan and Morgan Law Firm. The rehab he will get, as I found out from my hip replacement rehab, can definitely hurt. Although, for my hip replacement, I was able to leave the hospital in a wheelchair and get into our vehicle and go home. I only spent 2 1/2 days in the hospital.

Not sure what he is going to do, since he only has a doctor as an "eye witness" to the dog bite...........no picture. And, he told me the bite is healed now. It was just a nip.

He told me "this is the third time the dog has come after him, but he other two times was during the day. He wasn't bit, because the owners brother was able to get to the dog before it got to the BIL.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

This is a terrible thing to happen to your BIL, @Cody Fousnaugh , and i hope that he is able to return home after his hip heals, but since he is elderly, that might take a longer time than it would for a younger person.
I had a friend who fell and broke something in her leg (I do not remember what anymore), and she was never able to get around without a wheelchair after that, and then she started having memory problems, and she was never released from the nursing home, and ended living there until she passed away from heart problems.
Is this the same brother in law that also had cancer, or a different one ?

 

[Cody Fousnaugh]

This is a terrible thing to happen to your BIL, @Cody Fousnaugh , and i hope that he is able to return home after his hip heals, but since he is elderly, that might take a longer time than it would for a younger person.
I had a friend who fell and broke something in her leg (I do not remember what anymore), and she was never able to get around without a wheelchair after that, and then she started having memory problems, and she was never released from the nursing home, and ended living there until she passed away from heart problems.
Is this the same brother in law that also had cancer, or a different one ?

The person who has cancer is my half brother. IOW, same father, different mother. My wife only has one brother, so I only have one BIL.

 

[Cody Fousnaugh]

An Animal Control Officer came to my BIL's bed at the Rehab yesterday and told him that the dog that nipped his ankle has a record with the Animal Control Office. IOW, this isn't the first time this Pit Bull has bitten someone and there is already a record of that.

Not sure if Morgan and Morgan Law Firm will take his case, but they told him they check it out.

We are trying to find out how his rehab is doing. I know one thing for sure, I'm sure he's hurting from it. I sure did from my hip replacement.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

I get the feeling that vicious dogs are almost treated as people, and in particular as gently treated as criminals often are today.

I'm not a "pet person" so feel free to discount my opinions. I think slave pet ownership is out of control, with far too many people lacking a fraction of the responsibility required. I don't blame the miserable creatures themselves, they never asked to be puppy-milled into existence and for the most part the behavior of the hazardous ones probably stems from the eugenics of pet breeding and/or being poorly raised or even abused.

Being crotchety on the subject, I may as well crawl further out on this limb. I believe that "pet ownership" has long become a consumption industry aimed at corporate profits. Crawling out toward the leaves and bracing for my fall... I believe it exploits a societal mental illness that is on the rise. Keeping "pets" as surrogate children is one manifestation of social failure.

I don't think we're doing a great job handling advanced age as a culture either. We've extended life, but leave the old folks produced in great numbers rudderless. Some human instincts demand to be satisfied, maternal ones perhaps having been the reason for the century-old "cat lady" stereotype.

Grr. Grr. Yes, I'm turning into a crotchety old man!

 

[Cody Fousnaugh]

I get the feeling that vicious dogs are almost treated as people, and in particular as gently treated as criminals often are today.

I'm not a "pet person" so feel free to discount my opinions. I think slave pet ownership is out of control, with far too many people lacking a fraction of the responsibility required. I don't blame the miserable creatures themselves, they never asked to be puppy-milled into existence and for the most part the behavior of the hazardous ones probably stems from the eugenics of pet breeding and/or being poorly raised or even abused.

Being crotchety on the subject, I may as well crawl further out on this limb. I believe that "pet ownership" has long become a consumption industry aimed at corporate profits. Crawling out toward the leaves and bracing for my fall... I believe it exploits a societal mental illness that is on the rise. Keeping "pets" as surrogate children is one manifestation of social failure.

I don't think we're doing a great job handling advanced age as a culture either. We've extended life, but leave the old folks produced in great numbers rudderless. Some human instincts demand to be satisfied, maternal ones perhaps having been the reason for the century-old "cat lady" stereotype.

Grr. Grr. Yes, I'm turning into a crotchety old man!

Well, I've been around a few adult Pit Bulls that acted like puppies. We had a neighbor a few years ago that had a female Pit and it was truly friendly, at least towards me. Our only dog was a 3 year old half breed, Siberian Husky and Malamute Husky. Huskies are very friendly and not considered a Watch Dog, like Pit Bulls and some other breeds are. We would never own a "Watch Dog" type dog.

There are those that love Pit Bulls due to their muscular/"bad ass" personality some have that, apparently, was made by the owner/owners. Just like military and police dogs are fully trained to "attack" on command.

Just like those that have children that shouldn't, there are dog owners that have a dog/dogs that shouldn't.

 

[Cody Fousnaugh]

It appears that my wife's brother will have to stay at the Rehab Home longer than he wanted to. He got out of the hospital and arrived at the Rehab Home on the 10th of August. A week from this Wednesday, he'll be there a month and he was told, at a meeting last week, that he may end up there for an additional month. They simply won't release him to go back home until they are sure he can take care of himself. Medicare has approved him to be there for another month. Apparently, Medicare has also approved of a Rehab nurse to come to his house/room for more rehab, that is, once he has been released to return to his home.

He had the staples in his hip taken out last week and has done rehab in his bed and in a chair. What he really wants to do is to get rehab started with him standing up. Apparently, the Home doesn't think he's ready for that yet.