Man, that's a rough year. I hope things turn around for him and his retirement gets more enjoyable.That's something I've never done, but the rest of the family has. We have a friend who normally does thousands a yr at his place. Unfortunately he has been waiting on hip surgery for like 7 months because it was infected, and to ad insult to injury(literally), their home just caught fire. I guess they were in the barn butcher a small batch of chickens, the power went out, he walked out to see what the problem was and saw the fire trucks they had heard were in their driveway . Quite a ways out before it's finished, and he's scheduled for his surgery early this month. Oh yeah, he just retired last fall.
My mother in law had a tough time with her hip replacement and had to have one redone. She was just about done with rehab and an infection settled into it so they replaced it again.