I'm happy for the news of DR Vixmom!
My mum got reasonably good news from her dr's visit today regarding the abhorrent swelling of her thigh. We went to her ortho to find out if it was something related to the steel rod, x-rays showed that it wasn't, but didn't rule out the possibility of infection or blood clots, so we went off to the hospital for lab work and a Doppler (I didn't know you could get a weather forecast from a thigh). Doppler showed no blood clots, so now we await the results of the blood work.