My husband and I don't have pain/aren't fragile but we're both very overweight and DH smokes and has some small physical quirks that I'm keeping an eye on, they're not getting better. He won't "bend" at the waist because it "hurts' (it's more like it is uncomfortable) so he avoids any bending over and I can just picture the direction that is going to go. I've tried to tell him he has to use the muscles or lose them; he had a weird arm problem that he had physical therapy for and still does the exercises they taught him three years ago but it's for one, literally weird, we'd never heard of, freaking muscle! And he hasn't increased or changed the routine and refuses to do any other exercises for any other body parts. . . But I'm picturing the wheel chair he's gonna end up in too and who will be around to push it. However, I ain't no spring chicken myself!

I'm glad your husband is doing better now, AAAAA.