I'm so sorry, Bikechick, that's got to be so hard to watch.

What's oddly related is that I've fallen quite a bit in the past few days (I'm still on crutches) and I'm finding myself sore and bruised all over. Just today I was thinking that maybe I'll stop trying to do so much stuff because I'm sick of falling. That won't really happen because I'm even more sick of sitting around, but I can kind of see how things can quickly spiral downward easy enough. Falling sucks and falling repeatedly is demoralizing and frustrating even for people like me who don't have depression issues or who are otherwise healthy.

And your situation is hard for me to imagine as my mom (who is 70, so slightly younger) is still regularly competing in tennis tournaments. I know that my mom put on a little weight and she struggles with various health issues, but she's still highly active and mobile for a woman of her age. I should appreciate her more, I think!