This is his status so far: starting from the feet: he can't feel where his feet are when he is walking, so has to be careful where he puts them down. He still has feeling in them though because if he stubs a toe or if I stand on his foot, he yelps!He has a huge scar, the whole length of his right thigh in the front, from where they took the muscle to put on his head. Otherwise his legs are okay. His hands are also growing numb. He has a rash on his right hand, a sort of eczema - don't know where that comes from. His body is itchy all over, all the time, which drives him low-key mad. He also has tinnitus. He ought to get hearing aids, but doesn't want them. He won't wear his dentures, they are too badly fitting, he says. And won't go back to the dentist to have them sorted out. So he is toothless. He has no salivary gland on the right, and the nerve needed to lift his right arm was cut so he can't lift his right arm very high. Luckily over time, the other salivary gland has taken over, and he doesn't have a dry mouth any more. His head has healed nicely. He doesn't have a bone covering the top of his skull (a space roughly the size of a compact disc) so all that covers the top of his head is a muscle (his thigh muscle, which is the only muscle they removed which actually worked) and thus he wears a bump cap whenever he walks around. His brain is still pretty lively, the only problem I've noticed with it is that he doesn't remember where places are or how to get to them: not nearby places I mean, but say, my niece's house, or his son's place in Jacobsbaai. He always used to know how to get to anywhere. He still drives, still reverse parks, still jokes and is amusing and is doing a few chores around the house which he hasn't for donkey's years! He is walking further. So basically, I think he is getting better.
Oh, there was one incident this year: he felt faint around the middle of January and fell forward and bumped his head on the mirror. He didn't fall over though.
