Recovery and Prosthesis Update
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Firstly, thank you for checking in to see how Rory is getting on! Pete and I very much appreciate the ongoing support. His recovery from the amputation is going excellently. The stump itself is healing really well, and from the day we got home he was putting weight on it and crawling around the house as normal - there's no stopping him; he's so fast! He's now completely off the pain relief and down to one simple plaster-type dressing which we change at home once a week (or more often if he pulls it off himself - which tends to happen every few days). Sheffield did provide a stump sock for him to wear over the dressing, but it wasn't so much a compression stocking, more of a tubi-grip bandage to protect the actual dressing. After a few days we noticed that it was aggravating the centre of his skin graft and causing some inflammation, so we stopped wearing that and just made sure he had a normal sock on all the time, to stop him pulling the dressing off and to protect