Sorry for the long delay in posting anything at all about my status, but I was also pretty sure folks did not truly want to hear all of the gory details.... besides, those gory bits are still not over yet anyway

I think from reading the above, I still had my entire right leg the last time I was actually reading/posting in these forums. That is no longer the case, my right leg below the knee was removed on 12/26/2012, with the finalization surgery where they clean up the mess they made originally and further shorten and shape what will then forever more be called the "residual limb" (or stump in everyone Else's language).
Then of course, I had to stay in hospital for several weeks until recovered from that surgery, the transferred to a nursing home for a couple months and finally a rehab facility for another 6 week where I finally got the peg leg I had dreamed of owning as a pirate childhood memory. Damned thing did NOT fit. First I was told it would take a while for the swelling to shrink enough for it to fit, but in the meantime they wanted me to exercise to keep my strength up... ummm... been lying in bed flat on my back for well over 9 months now? Just how much strength was there to keep anymore? I had to start well below what most folks feel as normal.
After three months in the rehab they sent me home, with that still new prosthetic leg, that still had not been adjusted correctly. 2 more months of weekly trips back to the rehab outpatient training center and increasing new wounds because the prosthetic was rubbing in all the wrong places... they finally agreed that it needed adjustments... the guy responsible for that, took things in his own hands and way overdid things, to the point that my original prosthetic is now useless and can never be used, not even as a short-term emergency replacement when I finally get a new one. BUT, they can't do a re-press to get a new one started until these darned wounds heal, which is taking forever... come on, you all know how stubborn I can be, and you have to admit that it is likely inherited and covers healing(or not), taking things easy(or not) etc.
So, that is where I am at. Still stuck to a single room of this house (yes I cam get around the house some, but only with assistance of either crutches, walker or wheelchair. Going "out" requires the same thing, but all those commercials you see folks easily getting a wheelchair or walker into/out of a trunk are lying. No one can do that all the time, most especially not my partner due to her own disabilities.
Anyway, next up will be diving into this new medicare under the affordable care act. Gawd, I sure hope that the folks that are thrusting this down everyone's throat are truly telling the truth about this stuff, so I may still be able to purchase meds, and food out of the single check income that I now have coming in...