My stepfather broke his ribs a couple of times. It was nothing but pain like you said and he just had to wait for them to heal. He has some sort of brittle bone disease which makes it worse for him.

The hospital said I should get physical therapy but I haven't gotten into a follow up with the family practice doctor yet because unbeknownst to me my family practice closed and am now having to go to another doctor.

Both are good and will probably shock you.  It shocked me and I live pretty much ground zero. And have addicted relatives.

Moreover, it as not as if the Constitution does not provide for succession--but, of course, this is a major part of the "age issue", the first in line of succession is a woman, and not just a woman, but a Black woman.  

I believe President Biden is a savvy politician and knows exactly what the Republican Party of today (and even the Party of the past) is all about. But, he is president of the United States and sees his responsibility to unite and, for the good of the country, to be able to govern  with these miscreants as best he can.

However, the re-election campaign, as in the mid-terms, needs to take the governing gloves off and call a fascist a fascist. That, too, is for the good of the country.

Henry Kissinger was the Prince Klemens von Metternich of our time, a brilliant Cold War-era foreign policy analyst who was perhaps far too keen to maintain the balance of power between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. for anyone's good, regardless of the costs, particularly in his reflexive resistance to Soviet expansionist tendencies in Central Europe and elsewhere.

In my estimation, Kissinger's biggest and most considerable failing was his tone-deaf and amoral indifference to the immediate and long-term consequences of his diplomatic machinations upon the hoi polloi of the world, who I imagined he saw as inconsequential to his mission.

As a result, the people of Chile and Argentina paid an enormous price for Kissinger's advice to presidents Nixon and Ford to support the military coups in those countries, with the result being tens of thousands of their citizens either killed or simply "disappeared."

Kissinger was the ultimate pointy-headed intellectual in the ivory tower, an academic at heart whose diplomatic legacy is a decidedly mixed bag of actual accomplishments that advanced the cause of peace, and some incredibly dubious decision making which ultimately led to tragic outcomes for millions of people on the ground.