Yet Another Fall

Just got this from Liz:

Just a short report here - Mom apparently had another fall last Fri. morning.  I got a message from the nurse, but it was too late to get hold of them for any details.  The message said they had found her sitting on the bathroom floor, checked her over, she looked OK, no head-bumping this time.  When I mentioned it to Mom, she said it wasn't a fall, that she was sitting on the toilet, having summoned them to help her with changing her pants.  Today when I was over there, I said to her that she seemed to be having much more trouble moving around than usual, and she admitted that her side hurt quite a lot.  So I looked, and she has a large blackish bruise (with a bit fading to yellow) over her left ribs under her arm, right under the bra line. We went to the nurse's office, and they think the looks of the bruise matches the timing of the Fri. fall, which Mom apparently doesn't remember.  We made arrangements for her to have some Tylenol regularly for a few days (and they gave her the first dose), then we went to CVS.  But she was having trouble moving her limbs well again.  It reminded me of her condition the morning of Uncle Tom's funeral service, when she was coming down with bronchitis.  Remember how her limbs didn't seem to move "on command" and she was so-o slow?  It's very worrisome.  The walker got a bit too far out ahead of her a few times, and she got "frozen" and couldn't make her legs catch up.  I was sorry we had even gone anywhere - I didn't let go of her arm the whole time.  She did say that "things had gone downhill" recently, which presumably means "since last Fri. morning," but she doesn't really know.  She said the bruised area was causing her difficulty with many actions, like lying herself down on the bed and standing up from sitting on the bed, so I hope that pain and stiffness is the cause of all the sluggish movement.  I went back to the nurse's office later (by myself) and told them I was worried and asked them to keep a closer eye on her than usual for a few days.  Because of the fall, she is already having her vitals checked daily, so they will notice if her temp rises (if she's starting some other infection).  They also said that if she is still complaining of pain tomorrow or so, they may see about a rib xray.