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Dad has had a nasty infected ulcer on his foot turn into gangrene. He has been in hospital for a week on IV antibiotics but it hasn't improved much so he should be going in for surgery this evening to have at least part of his foot amputated.
The surgeons said that it should just be "a couple of toes and some tidying up" but they won't know for certain until they can be sure how far the infection has spread once they've started the op.
At least dad was looking a bit perkier today - he had been looking really quite poorly the last few days and his spirits were starting to flag...
The surgeons said that it should just be "a couple of toes and some tidying up" but they won't know for certain until they can be sure how far the infection has spread once they've started the op.
At least dad was looking a bit perkier today - he had been looking really quite poorly the last few days and his spirits were starting to flag...
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