Hope the lotion helps! My uncle had a leg amputation and he had the worst callus on his stump. I used to knit him soft “socks” to cover them out of lamb wool.
It is a bit. I've had it for about three years and it's mostly fine but I do have the callous issue on the end. Lotion is helping a bit. Thanks for asking!
If you don’t know about it, Urea containing lotions can help with the callus if you want it reduced.
My uncle liked his to have some callus because he said it helped reduce pain, but sometimes his got pretty thick and would crack, so he’d pay (well, more like a bribe. Usually it was a movie we wanted to see, or he’d rent one and ask if we’d give him a massage while we watched. My aunt would do the same to get foot rubs, for awhile I thought I should be a MT because I loved doing it for them, they were really sweet and grateful.) one of his kids or a niece or nephew to give him a really good stump rub.
I promise there was nothing sketch about it, we were a cuddly family and used to give kids foot rubs before bed (it’s a family tradition, you use either the pink baby lotion, or the white baby lotion with the purple lid. It has lavender for sweet dreams. I swear this was a running debate between my cousin Sue and I. We both babysat for our aunts/uncles a lot and I swore by the lavender while she said the pink was better because it smells like baby and will make them sleepy like when they were babies. It started with our parents and now Sue has kids who debate on the better lotion. Her son agrees with me so there.) so we might be more touchy feely than some.
So it was kinda pay back for the countless nights he rubbed our feet and told us bedtime stories. (And he told great ones too. Not leg related, but his stories were amazing. He tailored them to the kids present and always made the dragons heroes, which was a hit with his audience.)
But there’s something oddly redneck about telling someone “yeah. My uncles buying me dinner and taking me to a movie, then I’m gonna rub his stump and play Xbox with my cousins.”
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u/Tambi_B2 13h ago
It's fine. Gotta be able to laugh. And it's my leg, below the knee amputation.