Elderly woman skates through recovery

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Friday, April 29, 2016
VIDEO: Elderly woman skates through recovery
A 94-year-old Iowa woman is rolling through recovery on skate after falling and breaking her hip

A 94-year-old Iowa woman is rolling through recovery on skates after falling and breaking her hip.

Evelyn Nichols loved to roller skate when she was a little girl.

And that childhood memory kept her focused after she broke her hip a few months ago.

After she fell, therapists told her there was a strong chance she would never be mobile again.

Through therapy she fought the odds, first re-learning how to walk, then re-learning her favorite childhood pastime, roller skating.