Whoops, there goes my skating career

My mother has a terminal form of cancer called multiple myeloma. Despite the cancer, doctors deemed she was healthy enough to have her right hip replaced.

Eight days after her hip replacement she tripped at home, landing on the knee joint of the femur of the hip joint she just had replaced. Not only did she completely dislocate her newly replaced hip, but she split her femur in half-- lengthwise. In surgery it took a 14" titanium rod and four steel bands to put her leg back together.

Six months later she was back to swimming a mile a day. While on chemo. At 68 years old.

Since then, she's had her other hip replaced and her right elbow, which she shattered into half a dozen pieces while hurrying out to get the mail one day.

She is currently 71 and post-stem cell transplant, still on chemo. She still swims a mile or more a day and teaches swimming to adults and to kids with special needs.

Go play derby.

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