Diabetics feet! Who needs feet anyway...

[Phil Pascoe]

Thanks ... if I had a God, I'd be busy. :lol:

 

[lanemaux]

Good luck amigo , get well soon. So sorry about your dog as well. As a dog person as well, I have some idea how this feels. As always my family and I are pulling for ya , so, chin high and keep positive.

 

[n0legs]

I'll lose the whole leg at some stage, anyway.

Scrap them thoughts fella, they'll do you no good.
Good luck for tomorrow my friend.

 

[monkeybiter]

Good luck phil.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Thanks, everyone. I believe a few bottles of 8.2% Weston's will give the morphine a helping hand tonight.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

One last bit of blood and gore before it goes -

 

[Phil Pascoe]

'tis done.



It'll be Monday before I see the inside of this, but at least I know the majority of it is still there. Note the arrow in case they took the wrong big big toe from their huge choice of one. :lol:

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Now I've seen the inside. :shock:



While I was waiting I saw a woman wheel her mother into the waiting room. Mother was well overweight and had both feet bound up. Daughter must have weighed 20 stone and sat and ate a cheeseburger. Preaching doesn't come naturally to me being an ex 40 a day man and a person who could sink a couple of dozen pints without thinking about it, but I seriously wonder about some people. (The years of doing that are long gone, of course. )

 

[Bm101]

Glad it went well Phil. Plus you'll have a great shark story to tell young kids.

 

[DennisCA]

I had a diabetics checkup as well, also checked my feet. Fortunately I wasn't goinmg around long enough for any damage to have occured and my HBA1C was down to 5.4 so the doctor thought the medication was working real well (januvia+metformin combo pill + long acting insulin shot every night). Hoping I can keep this under check for the rest of my life (35 now) so I don't have to suffer the same fate as Phil.

 

[Tortion-Stephen]

Fascinating, portentous and difficult to read. I'm incredibly sorry about your suffering and really hope your luck changes.

Also very sorry to hear about your dog.

Thanks for posting this.

Best wishes

Stephen

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Thanks, everyone. The dog's on steroids and touch wood, the cancer seems static atm.

 

[monkeybiter]

My wife's just been showing me a video of me moving my feet while I'm sleeping, I know I do it while I'm drifting off, a sort of restless leg syndrome I think. Hoping this will help promote/maintain circulation now you've put it on my watch list.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Best of luck with the recovery Phil. What an ordeal you've had to put up with and what a fabulous lesson in mental health, balance and humour you continue to demonstrate. As I type, my youngest is in theatre (5 hours now) with major bone surgery in one of his lower legs so the whole hospital theme is with us right now. Your tale is a salutary lesson and that's for sure

Keep smiling mate.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I think the amputation site is healing, slowly -

Dunno about the other one ... the painful one ...

 

[Phil Pascoe]

My problem at the moment is that the artery the surgeon would like to get at is directly under this -

So tomorrow it's another angioplasty in an attempt to get that ulcer plus another small one and the amputation site (the big toe) to heal.
Onwards and upwards an' all that ...

 

[finneyb]

Phil

Recently read about a new FDA Approved treatment in diatribe, a US diabetes blog/newsletter. I suspect its not generally available over here BUT there is a process called Individual Patient Commissioning that allows for things not on the normal NHS menu.
https://diatribe.org/drugdevice-name/omnigraft

Speak to the consultant/GP about it - NOT the nurse. It will need an individual funding and they will need to do the application.
And take no crap about no money - there is plenty of money £116 billion pa, they just need to spend it better.

Brian

Brian

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Brian, thanks for that. I'll have a word with the main man. We get on quite well as he has an interest in carving, pole lathes, side axes, froes and country crafts in general.
I'll email that to him.
Phil.

 

[Bm101]

Get on it Phil

 

[n0legs]

Keep plugging away at it my friend, you'll beat this yet :wink: