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So. Um.

My grandmother is eighty-one, and had a fall, and apparently she has an "osteoporotic wedge fracture" in her tibia. Or possibly her femur? One of those.

And all the googling I can find seems to be about wedge fractures of the spine, and I know what the words "osteoporotic" and "wedge" and "fracture" mean individually, but I don't know what they mean, you dig? I mean, I know Grandma is getting old, because that happens, and it's one of the reasons I'm going to see her this summer. But she's always been really quite mobile and independent, and I have no idea what this new thing means for her, and I worry, and I want to make plans that a) she'll enjoy and b) won't make her feel like I'm accomodating her, because she'd hate that.

Anyone have experience with this? What's the healing time? Even when healed, how will she be?