For the want of a shoe
Last day of class. I’ll try to get to an overall summary this weekend, but the biggest deal today was the podiatrist. When I asked if he really wanted me to wear shoes all the time, he was quite insistent. Worse, he seemed to think I only was considering bare feet in the house. My guess is that it might be a cardinal sin to go barefoot outside. This is the first doctor’s orders related to the diabetes that I really might not be able to follow.
I go barefoot everywhere. When I’m on vacation, I might go days with no shoes at all. I don’t know if I even know how to wear shoes to and from or on the beach.
It sounds to me that the issues go like this: diabetics have problems with nerves, especially the longer ones. So they lose sensation in their feet. Then they don’t feel the scratch, the splinter, even the nail stuck to their foot. This leads to infection. And infections in diabetics are harder to heal, especially in the extremities. This could quickly lead to gangrene, and gangrene to amputation. For the want of a shoe…
Blood sugar: Wednesday pm: 124, Thursday am: 115.