I saw it at the expo. It looked like a damn basketball in his calf. He needs to hit the pool for exercise....no weightbearing crap...
Look obviously he's never coming outta this so i'll lay off the jokes they were for motivation that was buried a long time ago. If he's only gonna type a long series of rationalizations instead of acting on this, it's over.
If he was serious there would be more than "i'm swimming" with no mention of duration - what's needed is the motivation to work up to
hours of aerobics, with little or no weights for 6 months or more. The strength can easily be brought back later. A serious obsession with aerobics is required, along with a possible staple or something similar.
A wheelchair might make sense, at least for a while. They make industrial strength ones in different sizes.