April 17, 2012

• Diabetes and complacency

  Diabetes and complacency do not mix well, or more correctly, they mix, it's the results I don't like.

   

  Sunday started as a normal day for me, working my 12hr shift. Got home and did my usual things and still, no issues... that is until I took my socks off getting ready for bed. the second toe on my left foot was swollen and the inflammation ran at lest halfway up the top of my foot. There was a puss blister easily the size of a large pea right behind the cuticle.

  The worst part... I didn't feel it, no pain, no pressure, no heat...

  Not a fun thing to find out.

   

  Two days later and two doctor visits and it's looking much better, but the long term prognosis isn't going to get any better. After twenty years with diabetes I no longer have sensation in almost half my toes. I had been hopeful recently because new medications seemed to helping and indeed, for most of my feet, they are. It's just too late for the toes that were the worst.

  I don't like this, but there isn't much I can do except be a lot more vigilant about checking my feet.

  sigh...

   

  I figured this day would come, I had hoped it would take longer.

   

   

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