On Tuesday, Amado woke up to blood in his cast. He dashed off to the doctor where he was x-rayed and found out that the ankle and foot looked great. The cast was removed from his right ankle and the cause of the bleeding was the cast rubbing on his skin inside of it.

He is experiencing no pain, just a little discomfort from the skin that has been inside of a cast for 6 weeks. Many of us have been through that.

He is easing back into walking, and the doctor said that he should be back to normal in 2 weeks.

He (and we) wants to sincerely thank everyone that contributed. Your contributions allowed him to keep a roof over his head, pay the utilities, feed himself and the cats, and get Melanie (the momma cat) spayed. The three female kittens are scheduled to be spayed on January 15, and there is almost enough money to cover that.

We suspect that he will be a visible person again soon, riding the Playa la Ropa combi, recovering lost items in the water off of the beach, and providing the coconuts to El Pirata from the trees that he grooms and maintains.

Again, thank you everyone!!!