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WarLady1
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(1/26/01 11:06:25 pm)
Nancy Reagan "terrified" over broken hip
http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/n...l/ap13.htm
Hip Injury 'Terrified' Nancy Reagan
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nancy Reagan said she was ''terrified, just terrified'' when former President Reagan fell and broke his hip earlier this month.
''It was the farthest thing from my mind that anything more could happen to him,'' Mrs. Reagan said in an interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw, a portion of which was aired Friday night.
Reagan, who has Alzheimer's disease, fell Jan. 12 at his Los Angeles home and broke his right hip. The following day, surgeons inserted a pin, plate and screws to repair the hip. He returned home last Saturday.
Mrs. Reagan stayed with her husband throughout his hospital stay.
''I think the only time that they were able to get me out was they wouldn't let me in the operating room. But otherwise, I was there,'' she said.
Asked how the 89-year-old Reagan was handling physical therapy, Mrs. Reagan said: ''He deals with it. Ronnie is very obliging. If you ask him to do something, he'll do it.''
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? --Thomas Jefferson (Memo to Ted Kennedy)
EO12958
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(1/27/01 7:26:36 am)
Reply Re: Nancy Reagan "terrified" over broken hip
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I shuddered when I heard the news about Reagan's hip injury because my father also had Alzheimer's disease and broke his hip - while the surgery was successful for the injury, he died within a month of the fall. He was just shy of his 90th birthday. Knowing this can happen, I was very concerned and can imagine why Mrs. Reagan was terrified.
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(1/26/01 11:06:25 pm)
Nancy Reagan "terrified" over broken hip
http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/n...l/ap13.htm
Hip Injury 'Terrified' Nancy Reagan
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nancy Reagan said she was ''terrified, just terrified'' when former President Reagan fell and broke his hip earlier this month.
''It was the farthest thing from my mind that anything more could happen to him,'' Mrs. Reagan said in an interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw, a portion of which was aired Friday night.
Reagan, who has Alzheimer's disease, fell Jan. 12 at his Los Angeles home and broke his right hip. The following day, surgeons inserted a pin, plate and screws to repair the hip. He returned home last Saturday.
Mrs. Reagan stayed with her husband throughout his hospital stay.
''I think the only time that they were able to get me out was they wouldn't let me in the operating room. But otherwise, I was there,'' she said.
Asked how the 89-year-old Reagan was handling physical therapy, Mrs. Reagan said: ''He deals with it. Ronnie is very obliging. If you ask him to do something, he'll do it.''
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? --Thomas Jefferson (Memo to Ted Kennedy)
EO12958
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posts: 15
(1/27/01 7:26:36 am)
Reply Re: Nancy Reagan "terrified" over broken hip
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I shuddered when I heard the news about Reagan's hip injury because my father also had Alzheimer's disease and broke his hip - while the surgery was successful for the injury, he died within a month of the fall. He was just shy of his 90th birthday. Knowing this can happen, I was very concerned and can imagine why Mrs. Reagan was terrified.