Meghan Markle is hoping to send her father, Thomas Markle, a handwritten note after he underwent an emergency leg amputation in the Philippines on Dec 3.

Thomas, 81, had his leg amputated below the knee after a “huge blood clot in his thigh… cut off blood flow to his lower left leg,” his son previously said.

Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle, made a desperate plea to his daughter from the hospital after he got his leg amputated in the Philippines. Thomas, 81, begged the Duchess of Sussex, 44, to see him “one more time before I die,” according to his interview with the Daily Mail published Saturday.

Meghan Markle reached out to dad Thomas Markle following his emergency leg amputation, despite a report from the Duchess of Sussex's father that claims he has not heard from his estranged daughter, PEOPLE understands.

It looks like Meghan Markle’s outreach to her estranged father Thomas Markle has just gotten even stranger. As many of our readers know by now, Thomas is currently at a hospital in the Philippines, where he underwent an emergency situation.

“I took dad to a hospital close to our home and they did various scans and the doctors said his life was in imminent danger,” Thomas Markle Jr. told Daily Mail on Wednesday. “They raced us by ambulance, with the sirens going, to a much bigger hospital in the center of the city.”

Meghan Markle has made contact with her estranged father, Thomas Markle. Thomas was previously reported to be in the ICU following a “life or death” health emergency that required his leg to be amputated. Prince Harry, according to sources, urged Meghan to speak with her father again amid his own reconciliation with King Charles.

The King walked his new daughter-in-law down the aisle after her own father, Thomas Markle, couldn't attend