TSquare,
Best wishes to your mother & hopes of a speedy recovery.
My uncle is a rancher in western N.D. & broke his hip last fall working cattle. (Not Broke Back Mountain style for all those thinking of the play on words.) He went in & was out the next day - or morning after, don't remember the exact timeline - needless to say, he's as active as ever. Today's technology almost makes procedures like those "outpatient clinic practices!"
GJ