"The Suppurating Leg" sounds like a story by L.P. Hartley or John Metcalfe. And no, Met-calf is not intentional. Is it a Hartley story that ends up with a shoe upside down on the floor, and then they discover a foot inside it, with the ankle running down through the boards?

Anyway, now I'm getting nervous, because you're not responding in spite of all this goading. Hope you're doing better.

MarcL