Well it sounds like you are on a promising course to full recovery. I'll send you all the good vibes I've got to spare. Which admittedly isn't many as of late but I'd rather put as much good into the world as I can.
I also have fantastic health care providers. The hospital, even though it is in Maine, is almost brand new and has been pinging the top of the charts and getting awards since it opened. (The name existed before, but it was an older facility.)
I did call in a specialist. I came in on a Saturday - but got to Augusta by helicopter on Sunday. I called in a specialist surgeon from Boston and he flew right up that day, did the consult, and then opened me up on Monday.
Insurance will cover 'reasonable' so that probably will only be partially covered. Other than that, and a semi-private wing, I am getting the same care anyone else would get at this hospital. They are just really good.
It is semi-private. I had the 'acute care' sub-wing to myself - mostly because I get a fuckton of visitors and lots of activity. Today, they moved someone into a room across the hall. So, I don't have the wing to myself anymore.
So, I will make the best recovery that hard work, lots of pain, and a few bucks can get me. They don't know how well I will recover - but it is quite possible that I will make a full recovery. It is a major bone and hip fractures are quite varied with recovery. They simply don't know.
Also, I learned something. Well, I learned lots of somethings.
I used to think a hip fracture was the pelvis but this is considered a hip fracture. It is just below the ball, on the femur. It is the strongest bone in my body - and it broke.
Curiously, I was a passenger. It is my left femur that broke. We have no idea how that happened. None.
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