dad update

*sigh*

So, the leg without a knee…? It has been in a cast for over six months now, I believe. The same leg that has had all the skin grafts taken from it to rebuild the flesh over the knee… Yeah, they finally had the foresight to take it off and replace it with a removable clam-shell cast. Of course, all of the graft locations were fucked up. All of the dead and infected skin was abraded and I guess it isn’t so bad at the moment.

My parents are so frustrated. My dad has been waiting to see his doctor for most of a week now. He is actually looking forward to the possibility of an amputation just so he can finally move on with his life. I told mom that if they removed it, and the stump healed cleanly, he would be in a much better place. He is actually upset that the leg, now abraded, looks good and the plastic surgeon thinks they won’t have to cut it off.

Ugh.

I find myself, for the first time, thinking that I could never move back to Ohio. I love the place, but I cannot understand how my dad could be getting such rotten health care there. I mean, some of this is the Cleveland Clinic, I think, it is suppose to be top notch…