Lamar Odom continues to make progress as he recovers from his near-death experience at the Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles.

The latest word out is the former National Basketball Association (NBA) cager is no longer on dialysis, a shocking development considering it was earlier believed that he would be requiring a kidney transplant.

His miraculous development does continue and Lamar is reportedly well enough to communicate and make decisions. Such has allowed Khloe Kardashian to leave the hospital now, which shifts the focus to an issue concerning Lamar's father, Joe Odom.

The elder Odom wanted to visit his son but alleges that has been prevented from doing so. He claims that he has been stricken off the list of allowed visitors who can see Lamar and he believes that it is Kardashian who has done so.

Lamar has had a strained relationship with his father who incidentally has a history of drug abuse as well. Lamar lost his mother when he was still young and grew up in the company of his grandmother.

It remains unclear though if Lamar and his dad were able to sort out their differences, although the father's inability to see his son does seem contrary to it.

Further and as earlier mentioned, Lamar is well enough to talk and make decisions meaning he can choose who visits him and who cannot.

And with reports that Khloe was not around when Joe Odom tried to pay his son a visit, it seems to be hinting at possibly one thing — that it may be Lamar himself who has been blocking his father from seeing him.

This angle reportedly comes from sources that TMZ claims to have talked to. If true, then perhaps all is not yet well between Joe and Lamar Odom after all.