Dear Cyndy,

Thank you for confiding in me the problems that have suddenly descended on you and Ned. 
I wish I could be there to help you; and I'm not sure that my comments, however well
intentioned, will be of benefit. Nonetheless, I'll try.

It's of course very gratifying that Ned's most recent fall does not require surgery.
The three most immediate risks for him, I suspect, are:
1) falling a second time while attempting to walk, and
2) prolonged inactivity in bed which might lead:
a) to further impairment of mobility and
b) to deep venous thrombosis of the legs.
What he needs is help/support in walking, so that he doesn't fall again,
while being spared the protracted immobility of sitting or lying down.
Elastic stockings might help.

My advice to you, if you were my patient, is not to let the abnormal mammogram
findings worry you. They certainly constitute no emergency, and the argument 
may be made that at your age the hypothetically abnormal findings should not be 
pursued at all. Neither Klemens, who is, after all a professor of medicine, 
nor I who has risen no higher than instructor in ophthalmology, has ever 
suggested to Margaret at any age that she have a mammogram; and none has 
ever been obtained. That I myself, though well aware of medical convention, 
have never submitted to cancer "screening" of any  kind, is perhaps an index 
of my eccentricity which should dissuade you from giving any heed whatsoever 
to my comments.   

In any event, I am, and will be,  thinking of you, and look forward to again
speaking with you on the 'phone if and when you're in the mood.

Jochen