| Re: Well, the resuts are in. |
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| Frank McCoy (mccoyf@millcomm.com) |
2012/04/18 09:36 |
"Fred E Brown" <fredebrown@nowhere.com> wrote:
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>"Frank McCoy" <mccoyf@millcomm.com> wrote in message
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>> "Fred E Brown" <fredebrown@nowhere.com> wrote:
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>>>"Frank McCoy" <mccoyf@millcomm.com> wrote in message
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>>>> "Fred E Brown" <fredebrown@nowhere.com> wrote:
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>>>>>Hope you're feeling better. :))
>>>>
>>>> Better.
>>>> Better is a LONG way from feeling good. ;-{
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Better is better than worse.
>>>I think I made a funny.
>>>
>>>Seriously I know the feeling, injured my left leg a year ago
>>>this month, took forever for the surgical wound to heal.
>>>Being diabetic all I could think about was losing the leg.
>>>
>> I know the feeling, if not the exact situation.
>> I worry about losing my feet ... to fungal-infections like athlete's
>> foot. When I'm really sick otherwise, such infections that already
>> were bothersome go completely out-of-control. The thought that they
>> might have to chop off one or both feet for such a simple thing ....
>>
>> Like you say, being diabetic makes you worry about such things.
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>Fortunately today the medical profession can do a lot more to heal foot
>injuries that used to turn to gangrene and loss of the limb. When my
>wound wasn't healing the surgeon sent me to the hospital wound care
>department. They cleaned it up, cut out some dead tissue and packed
>it with a paste, did this twice a week for 4 weeks. By then the wound
>had almost closed up. Took another couple of weeks but it finally
>healed. The problem that persisted was the redness and scaling.
>Went to a dermatoligist who said I had stasis dermatitis caused by
>the swelling and blood vessels leaking fluid that irritates the skin and
>causes the rash. A cream applied twice daily is curing that.
>None of this was around 50-60 years ago, if you were a diabetic
>and got a foot injury there was little the medical profession could do
>except amputate the limb.
>So if you have foot problems hike on over to the doctor, there's things
>that they can do to cure them.
>
With my fungal infections, all they can do is TREAT them.
Not the same; but still better than nothing.
Creams, sprays, washes ....
Lately I've been trying soaking my feet in vinegar.
They say that ascetic acid is a powerful fungicide.
Next I'm going to try soaking in bleach.
Bleach is supposed to kill all sorts of nasty things.
They all HELP. None CURE.
The closest to a cure is oral Lamasil; but with all the other meds I'm
taking, the doctor doesn't want to stress my liver that much.
Even with that, you still tend to get re-infected.
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