"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove > wrote:
>
> : "W. Baker" > wrote in message
> : ...
> : > Julie Bove > wrote:
> : > : >> There was an amputee named Guy who used to post here. He claims
> his
> : > : >> problem
> : > : >> started with a fungal infection. Not from eating carbs.
> : > : >
> : > : > The individual I spoke of dropped something of his foot. Two
> : > : > weeks apart on each foot. Got infected. Went into gangerine.
> : > : > It started with carbs. Guy probably had neuropathy. And
> : > : > that indeed started with too many carbs.
> : >
> : > : No. It didn't start with carbs. It started when he dropped
> something
> : > on
> : > : his feet and then there was the infection. We do not know from
> there if
> : > he
> : > : treated the infection properly. I do not know if Guy had neuropathy
> or
> : > not
> : > : but I do know that he didn't eat a lot of carbs. And he was a type
> 1!
> : > He
> : > : was posting here long before I came here so I only know what he
> posted
> : > after
> : > : I came here. I believe that his wife was Latino and he used to say
> that
> : > he
> : > : couldn't always eat everything that she made. If she made tacos, he
> : > could
> : > : eat one.
> : >
> : > This is often how the problems that lead to amputation in diabetics
> get
> : > started. It is that issue of slow or poor wound healing and
> dontrolling
> : > infection. Somthinglike, object dropped on foot, step on object and
> don't
> : > feel it, rub off skin, etc. happens and it starts an infection which
> : > spreads and can't be controlled and leads to gangrene and often
> : > amputation. why do you think you are told not to wlak barefoot? It
> is
> : > part of the prevention of infectionto amputation problem. No, not
> every
> : > poorly controlled diabetic has an amputation, but a high percentage of
> : > amputaions(aside form terrible war injuries) are the result of diabtic
> : > people beign unable to deal with foot and leg injuries that mean
> little or
> : > nothing for non-diabetics.
> : >
> : > Why do you think there is alwasy such emphasis on foot care for
> diabetics
> : > in literature and in advice given. Yu have alwasy said that no one
> ws
> : > allowed to go barefoot in your house as a child, so that could well
> have
> : > helped your reletives with diabetes even when they had high bgs.
>
> : Those relatives didn't live in my house and I don't know if they went
> : barefoot or not!
> You don't go barefoot and so are watching your feet. Just be careful not
> to drop anything heavy onto your foot. I also know a diabetic man, a
> custodian, who lost not only a foot, but part of a leg from havign a heavy
> object dro on his foot and the subsequent, diabetes exaceerbated infection
> led to the usual pattern of gangrene and amutation. It is one of the
> hazards of uncontrolled diabetes,
>
> I assume that your father and our brother, who you referenced did live in
> your house when you were growing up and got the no barefoot word from your
> mother. As to your other reletives, kI don't know them so I guess I don't
> really care.

They did but I was not talking about them. I have been diabetic longer than
them. I was talking of aunts, uncles, and great uncles. And you certainly
have been nasty to me lately!