This week we've reached the point where the wound looks as if it will really close. There is enough distinctive progress that from day to day we can see change. We've been a long time getting here. Carol is getting out and about a lot more than she has in previous weeks and she is becoming less and less conscious of the wound itself. An example: driving home yesterday she was sitting with her legs crossed. In the past she would be sitting straight up holding her left leg.

We are still bandaging the wound each night. That process has become very routine. Where it used to take over an hour from start (shower) to finish (fully bandaged) we are now down to just a couple of minutes to bandage and whatever length of time Carols decides to take to shower.

Carol has been spending a ton of time looking at feet. She's settled on one she really wants from Endolite and a couple of others that are under consideration. One issue that she is finding is that she has a fair amount of padding post bone bridge. When you couple that with the fact that she is very short, she ends up with just about 7" of clearance between the floor and the bottom of the stump. The other outstanding issue is that she intends to be very active with the foot and so she has to have something that will withstand her pounding.

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