Image created by ai That phone call. The one where your voice stays calm, but your heart tries to escape your chest. “It was nothing,” your dad says. “I just tripped.” But the bruise on his hip tells a different story. A story of vulnerability you don’t want to read. Let me be direct. As a nurse, I learned to hear what patients aren’t saying. And when an elderly person dismisses a fall, what they’re often really saying is, “I’m scared. I’m scared I’m losing my independence.
