And yes, I did say a prayer for the leg.
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Icuy-maybe he can keep an eye out for the missing leg...

8:30pm on day five and the destination airport finally has the leg!(Well, has the BAG. Hopefully the leg is inside).

Of course they didn't call and TELL us that they have it, but when a real person finally answered the phone there at 10:30pm, they confirmed that they have it (and yawned as if I was bothering them too late at night).

It will be on the morning baggage van, first thing!

So hopefully, with just a little more legwork, auntie will have it back!

So I gotta know...once she gets the bag back, will she have 2 left feet?

next time aunt lu takes her leg on a flight she better chain it to herself. she could go as a tripod.

I am really STUMPED for a response to this post, but seriously, my prayers are most definitely with you for a quick recovery of "the leg."

I have endured a dismal last month or so, and this post was SERIOUSLY the best laugh-out-loud situation that I have had in a LONG time...thank you SO MUCH for your wonderful sense of humor.

I can relate somewhat in the fact that Saturday I am flying from a small airport in Idaho to Minneapolis/St. Paul, to Detroit, to ANOTHER small airport in South Carolina, and with so many plane changes I am already concerned about lost luggage. :) !!

Thanks again and keep us informed!

If one leg was missing, was she able to hop on another flight to continue her trip?

One of those hop-on, hop-off bus tours might come in HANDy about now.

... maybe that's just going out on a limb.

Congrats, Lu's leg left lost luggage.

And now for something different.

A coupldeof years ago I had an appointment with the dermatology clinic at UNC hosptials. The clinic was one afternoon where about every person in a 200-mile radius of Chapel Hill was there. As I waited for my name to be called, I would watch the people called head off with the nurse. The first person limped, the second person limped, you get the idea. I was wondering what's with the limping? Does ezema cause limping later in life? Well, then finally a person left, holding his artificial leg. Then I got it, people having skin problem from ill-fitting artificial limbs.

I hope Aunt Lu was able to get the leg fitted.

have we reached the final leg of this story?

Yes but there is a sequel....errrrr...I mean knee-quel.
Aunt Lu got the leg at 11:30am, delivered by America West.

At 2pm we got a call from United saying that the bag had finally been located and wanting to make sure that it should be sent on to its destination rather than back where it started. I told them that it had already been delivered by America West and he said "well, that must be a different bag, because the bag with your tag number on it was just scanned 25 minutes ago at Dulles International Airport. What do you want us to do with it?"

AUGHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I wanted to scream but all I could think about was that poor bag at Dulles! WHO does it belong to? Why does it keep getting scanned day after day after day? Why do they think that it's my aunt's bag? Is there a leg inside THAT bag, too?

My brother says "Jeffrey Dahmer shouldn't have put his bodies in the freezer, he should have just given them to United. He never would have gotten caught!"

I think this is so hilarious you should take it to David Letterman show -
Glad the leg and Lu are reunited - but am dying to know what is in the other suitcase

LOL!!

I'm glad the bag has found it's way home. It must be quite a joy to be reuntied with a missing body part. If this had gone on much longer, at some point your aunt would have to admit de-feet, go public to get a toehold on the airline, and make them kick in some cash for a new leg.

I think we can all STAND UP and cheer! The saga of the missing leg has been a source of both concern and great belly laughs.

Please, please, please, get the other suitcase too! Maybe there is a matching leg?

Sunbum, "dying to know"? Not literally, I hope! You never know after reading all this !

Are you going to publish "Scarlett leg letters" or "for whom the leg talls"?

And that concludes another episode of
"The Lost, and the Legless"

HIP HIP Hooray!!! Aunt Lu's leg has been returned!!!! :D

Yeah!! Aunt Lu can dance once again-great news, tracy! Thankfully, her leg wasn't mistakenly shipped overseas only to become "leg in translation".

Congratulations! The suitcase finally made the last leg.
8-)