Struggling phal can't make up its mind

[lauraeli]

This one hasn't been doing well basically ever but one day I realized that even though I must have bought it in bloom, I have no idea which phal it is. Unlike every single one of my other phals.

Strangely, it resembles one which I really liked but was always sad about because I swear it died. Now, try as I may, I can't specifically remember that one dying. But I thought it was dead this whole time.

Anyway. The curiosity bug bit me hard and I have been babying this thing for the last six weeks-ish. It responded by putting out a new leaf. A small, pathetic leaf (shhh don't tell it), but one that was growing rather quickly up until it changed its mind and started growing from the base. I thought, yay new roots!

Nope.

As much as the lower growth looks like a root in the photo, it doesn't look at all like a root irl. It must be a keiki starting out. The upper growth better not be a flower spike but, sadly, I am convinced that it is.

Now, it does finally have a green bulge on the other side which will almost certainly be a root. I haven't given it any alcohol but, go home chid, you're drunk!

What kind of phal puts out a new leaf, a keiki, a flower spike, and a root in the same couple of months? Is this thing destined for the landfill or can it be saved?