Looks like Lou is getting a head start on Charcot foot. If you want to see grim, just google images.
Make lemonade from those lemons, Lou. Amputation is great grift material.
I have been yelling about Charcot feet for a long time, but I don't trust those bandages.
All the cards are against Lou, from his poor diabetes management, stupidity, stubbornness, magical dissolving shoes, self-reported change in shoe size. However, he's faked things, too, and wrapping up his toesies for a begging photo isn't beyond him.
SHOW FEET LOU
If he gets an amputation, I eagerly anticipate the Power Scooter Era.
More and more I am convinced that
something has happened to make Lou want to be less like the way he is, but darned if I can figure out what.
I bet the move had something to do with it. His mom had some kind of ultimatum about rent, that he phrases as "paying toward the mortgage," but Lou's lied(?) about contributing to family finances so many times that that shouldn't signify on its own.
I think that his parents talking about finances between themselves, planning for the house, may have percolated into Lou's sluglike consciousness and something that usually clicks in the tween years is starting to awaken. Maybe his parents talked about mortality too, their plans if Coach dies and sticks Denise with the whole payment.
Add to that the usual upheaval of moving: having to pick up and put down every single thing you own. Lou is a room-based entity, so much so that cleaning his room or just reorganizing would challenge his mental processes; you could hear the fans whir and the HD spin. He's been stagnating for years and years, and as clichéd as it sounds, a change of scenery woke him up. The hygiene, hormones, FtM "relationship," buying (terrible) women's clothing, all came from but also contributed to this momentum.
Lou hasn't talked about his eyesight in a long time.
Theory: it's stable and he got used to it. It's like having an area of dead pixels in a monitor, or a scratch in your glasses: eventually your brain stops screaming at you about it, the same way as you ignore your nose in your FoV. Lou's vision loss is still there, but his wake-up moment of "my body is
me" passed. He's buying different T-shirts for his body, but he's back to a being of energy and thought, just with a smudge in his HUD.