Update 11/28:

Hello friends and family,

With the holiday season in full spring, we wanted to take a minute to give you an update on Bill. Bill is home! After 47 days in Buffalo General, he was released and able to go home for Thanksgiving. This has been a blessing and an obstacle for our family. Although we are all so happy to have him home, it has opened up a whole new kind of obstacles he is now facing. Due to the kindness and support of all our family and friends we were able to build a ramp to get Bill into the house. Dave, and the fam, spent the week before Thanksgiving gutting and rebuilding the bathroom, and setting up a temporary bedroom on the 1st floor to accommodate Bill's new needs. Although there are still adjustments, it has been a much needed blessing to know all who has helped. We want to thank you all for your donations, visits, kind words, and prayers. You will never know our gratitude. Going forward Bill will have a Visiting Nurse come to the house a few days a week, he will need other surgeries for other issues that have arisen during his 47 day hospital stay, and then of course eventually the prosthetic leg. Now that he is home the hospital bills have started rolling in, which is hitting all at once. My MIL and husband have taken time off of work to be with Bill every day for whatever he needs. Not only is it taking a financial toll, but emotional and mental on everyone along the way. Please keep our family in your prayers. This will be a long healing journey and we appreciate you! Most likely this will be my last update on GoFund me. I have done my part and getting Bill’s story out there, and now I am hoping that he can heal and recover. Please feel free to reach out to any of us if you feel to.

Again, Thank You from all of us! You can keep giving to Bill during this holiday time, any little bite helps. Happy Holidays to you all and God Bless!

UPDATE:

I want to provide you all with an update from this week. We had a very large scare and a life changing experience. On Tuesday night, Bill had an vain that burst in around where the graft was. Without going into too many details, decisions had to be made instantaneously and a fast plan put into action. The doctors on staff had to do a surgery to prevent Bill from bleeding out, which means they had to bypass the blood flow to his leg. This ultimately ended up with Bill having his right leg amputated up half of his thigh. As you can imagine this was the last thing that we could have ever thought of. But this is where we are.

Bill will have to learn a new normal. He will have to endure PT, learning how to be mobile, figure out a way to do his independent routine. Before we can get Bill home we have to build a ramp to his front door, get his bedroom downstairs, and change his tub/shower to a handicap walk-in shower. This as you can imagine at no small fee. We are asking for any help to get Bill home.

Thank you to all that have supported our Bill so far. He is really touched to know so many people care about him. We will keep you all posted on his recovery. As of right now he is in good spirits being around his family, he just wants to be home

The month of October has been a world wind for our family. On October 2nd, 2025 my father-in-law, Bill Clough started experiencing pain that he hadn't had in over a decade. While on the phone with his son, my husband, Dave, he began to have tingling and numbness in his right foot. By the end of the conversation he had to hang up because he could bear the pain. At this point my mother-in-law knew he needed to go right to the hospital. As they took that, what seemed like an entirety, ride to a hospital in Buffalo, the what ifs started in brewing….

What if we are too late…What if I lose my foot….. What if I….

After being rushed to the ER, getting test after test, they told my in-laws Bill has a blood clot in his growing and needs to come out pronto. The next morning Bill was in line for the surgery to remove the blood cloth and save his life. His surgery lasted about 9 hours, but at the end we had gotten the news that it went well, they did what they needed to do and there is blood flow in his leg! Win Win!!! Bill spent the next 2 days recovering in the hospital. He was reluctant but the nurses got him up and moving around. He was released and able to watch the Bills game at home for the October 5th game vs. the Patriots. Even though the Bills lost, our Bill had a WIN! He was home and safe.

Bill spent the next week recovering at his home. He was being well taken care of, and his spirits were high. One week after he was released from the hospital Bill spiked a fever, and his incision spot started to ooze. Things were just not good. His family tried to convince him to go to the Dr., the hospital, even urgent care. But he wanted wait until his follow up to talk to his actual doctor. One look at him and she said “Bill you are going straight to the hospital, I am admitting you.” Our family was once again thinking the worst…. What's going to happen…. Is it too late….How did this even happen to him?

Back at the hospital Bill had to undertake test after test to figure out what the infection was. Right away he was hooked up to antibiotics trying to get a head of whatever this was. This was turning into a nightmare.

It has been 23 nights that he has spent in the hospital this month. 23 nights he has been away from his home, his family, his partner. By the end of this nightmare he will have spent 4 weeks of the last month in the hospital. 4 weeks of my mother-in-law traveling from Chautauqua to Buffalo, juggling work since she is the only with income, paying for parking, getting Bill food and drinks that he can actually stand (no offense to the hospital food). This has taken a toll on the family financially. His insurance will only cover part of what his hospital stay will cost. There will be rehab that he will need to do for the upcoming months. My mother-in-law has now taken on the extra stress of paying all the house bills, plus his medical bills.

This is the story of what happened to our family this month. There is much more that goes back to the beginning of the year which attest to why this whole thing happened to him in the first place, but I won't get into that. October also brought the news that my father-in-law will no longer be able to work. I am telling you all this story of our family because strength comes in numbers. I am hoping that we can all pull together to help lighten the load of my in-laws. I can't even begin to imagine what the undertaking will be for them in the months to come. If you can help financially we thank you, if you can't at the moment we ask you to share his story.

On behalf of our family, I thank you for keeping Bill in your prayers. Recovery is strength. ❤️