On Sunday, my friend Carol and I were talking and she mentioned to me that she had been having this awful pain in her heel since December. She said it felt like darts were being stabbed into her heel and yet there was no sore, not even a bruise. Well, having had a wound in my heel and discussing a lot of different things with my doctor, I told her to get into her doctor IMMEDIATELY! She knows that diabetics are said to die from their feet up and she is a brittle diabetic, which is even worse. The wound doctor had told me about this symptom that often happens to diabetics, especially in the heel area, which carries a lot of pressure. It is a kind of *tunneling* that occurs from a bacteria that attacks the muscle. It doesn't even require an open wound of any size.
She saw her doctor today and her doctor tore her a new butthole. So now Carol is going to the Wound Center there on Thursday. I told Carol that, since there is no obvious way to see what is going on, she will probably have to have a couple tests done and THEN they will probably have to surgically open that area to get at it to clean out any necrotic tissue. She asked me a lot of questions about MY experiences and I told her that if they wanted her to do the hyperbaric chamber therapy that she should go ahead and do it. I told her that they call it *HBO* therapy, just so she is familiar with the terminology. Sometimes, the doctors and nurses forget that we don't hear it every day like they do so they often forget to spell it out to us.
She made me laugh when she said she was so glad she found me online because I always made her feel better after we talked. She wasn't even being sarcastic! She was serious and yet I was a bit mad that she, as a brittle diabetic, ignored the obvious signals her body was giving her. But I did tell her that I was going to pray for her and I knew she would recover from whatever was plaguing her. The bad thing is that she can't take any pain pills. They haven't found any that she can take for more than a day or two and then they make her ill.
Well, we will just have to wait and see what the doctors find. In the meantime, I have to tell you that it is actually warmer here right now, at 12:30am than it was at 12:30pm. It was just 45 degrees this afternoon and it is 49 degrees now and seems to be climbing. Weird! It IS supposed to be warmer tomorrow...and not overcast but you know how the weathermen lie at times...LOL!
Gonna get this posted. Love you all. Stay warm, dry, cool....whatever is required for your area. ***Hugs***
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