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Sun, Mar 14, 2010

Uncle Tom's Leg

Posted at 8:19 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

I just got some bad news. My Uncle Tom (the one who survived falling off that roof a few years ago) has been in the hospital more or less since Valentine's Day. He had fallen or injured his leg somehow while on a visit to my cousin Tom, near Albany.

Uncle Tom's legs have deteriorated badly because of diabetic neuropathy, and a week or so ago the doctors had to amputate his left leg below the knee. Not a trivial occurrence for anyone, especially a man in his late 80s who suffered a major trauma a few years ago.

Tom had left the hospital, but then went back in yesterday with chest pains. I hope this turns out to not be very serious.

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