Last leg

This man is not the Loser.

If the Complete and Total Loser's bone sarcoma comes back, his doctor said, amputating the leg might be the best way to minimize the chances of it taking root in his lungs, which will kill him within a year. The way the leg is and where that would occur is too high up to make a prosthesis practical. The Loser would spend his remaining years on crutches. 
He despises being on crutches. You can't carry anything when you're on crutches unless you put it in a backpack. You can't push a shopping cart so you'd have to go to a big store that has those electric carts you drive around and those aren't in all stores. 
And people with missing limbs spook most others. Yesterday, the Loser saw a man with one arm running. He saw the man peripherally at first. Something in his subconscious registered as not being right, so the Loser instinctively turned his head to look at the man full on. He looked away quickly and smoothly, but his own life with a big shoe has taught the Loser this: The man noticed.