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Diving Into 2022; Armbands At The Ready

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Belated Merry Christmas! We hope everybody has had a wonderful festive long-weekend.  A few days before Christmas we attended a clinic with both Mr F (orthopaedics) and Miss T (plastics) for a very important appointment; to discuss the next steps for Rory's leg. This was an opportunity to get both teams in the same room to align their plans and identify where work could be undertaken in parallel.  Surgery - Plastics, Orthopaedics, Urology His leg still needs a lot of work. We always knew this, and knew that the past 6 months have been merely a break from hospital and surgery rather than the end of the road. The reality is that Rory will probably be in and out of surgery for a good few years yet. The main problem we have at the moment is that the skin graft is too tight against his bone. Typically there should be a good layer of tissue for skin to sit on, but there's nothing there above the bone because too much had to be removed in the first place. As a result, there is limite...