Health

Shoot, broken hips are 50% fatal within six months for people over 60, even with fast hip replacement and good rehab. Younger people can bounce back from physical trauma. Old folks, not so much. We need to kick and claw our way back, if we have the energy.

Chances are she had multiple rib fractures, maybe fractures to the spine and pelvis. She might also have torn an artery or lacerated her liver. We don't know and we won't know.

It was a nasty way to go. It might even have been suicide, her husband died not too long ago.

I will always appreciate one story about her. After the divorce, TFG spent his time trying to chisel away at child and spousal support. He threatened to sue her for custody. Junior was home that day, so she packed him up and sent him to TFG's office. TFG, who thought fatherhood began and ended with sperm donorship, sent him right back and didn't use that threat again.

She had ovaries of steel.