About 3 weeks ago she broke one of her toes. This normally would not be a big deal but she has type 2 diabetes and it had a small wound on it. I did not know this(she hid it from me) and last wednesday we went off to the beach with my family. She was limping around a bit during the trip but she claimed it was just a small scratch. Monday morning when she got up it was black as can be from the tip of her toe to her first knuckle. We went to the ER and her toe is pretty much dead. She has to have it removed to protect the rest of the foot. The good news is she has great circulation of blood right now and it does not appear to be spreading but it is still scary as a diabetic. Surgery will be either later today or tomorrow. Please pray for her to come out of this safe with the infection dead and no chance to spread anywhere else. I appreciate it!
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My diabetic father-in-law had a foot wound from a slight accident that would that would not heal, they amputated his entire foot. Then they amputated up to the knee. He had a prosthetic leg.
Then he got an infection that would not clear in his hip on the other side, so he was in a wheel chair the rest of his life.
To me it is barbaric to amputate body parts if non-invasive methods help . . .
Yes!!
To me it is barbaric to allow type 2 diabetics to roll around in their horrible diet and exercise habits like a pig in the mud, rewarding them with insulin for years instead of presenting them with a strict diet/exercise plan and a hard date of "no more insulin."
It pissed me off so deeply when I found out that losing weight gives your pancreas back the ability to generate insulin.
The pancreas isn't dead unless it goes necrotic and has to be removed.
These "type 2" diabetics are literally curable.
Doctors have no interest in removing the "type 2" diabetics from the teat of Big Pharma.
It's horse shit. Do better. Lose weight.
I am a victim of my fat fucking stupid ass mother imparting me with her fat fucking stupid ass eating habits and now at 31 I am still losing the weight and trying to think of food differently and trying to do stuff like be active and play sports.
My mom used to come up with every excuse for me to not be physically active too!!!! I want to be physically active and do karate—too expensive!!! I want to be physically active and play football—you'll hurt your head!! I want to be physically active and do all this stuff with my friends—where are the adults supervising you huh? So incredibly fucking gay.
Being raised by fat fucking piece of shit pedos is the worst.
I see all fat people as not caring about their husband/wife enough to take care of themselves.
And if a child is fat they are automatically being abused by their parents. The fat is evidence enough of abuse because childhood obesity IS child abuse, but childhood obesity is just the ugly head of the iceberg named "ALL THE OTHER SHIT THEY ARE DOING TO THAT CHILD."
I have a cousin who went through breast cancer 3 times, the whole thing: surgery AND radiation AND chemo. She has no breasts left now, of course.
What was her risk factor for cancer?? Obesity. She would go through all that misery and expense three times! But "can't" lose weight.