HI All.
Don't know what to do. He doesn't seem concerned. Is this normal?

He puts the bacitracin on and a bandaid (as instructed). Then he did the sponge attached to the orthotic thing, so it would put even less pressure on the ulcer. Maybe this was not such a good idea.

Last night he says to me "I'm going to wait on going to the gym, I want the podiatrist to check out my foot first" and I said 'why it's all healed" and he says "well, it has a callous" I immediately looked at it and said "is this supposed to look like this, what will the podiatrist do when he sees this, and Alan said "well, he'll probably do what the other podiatrist did for 18 months....he'll debride it".

I said: "but it was all healed, why is it calloused (now it's a very small callous, no big thing), but, he is scheduled to go back on October 3rd.

The podiatrist said "Let's give this a month and see how it is healed".

I'm not trying to jump the gun here (and it doesn't hurt him), but here's my question. When the podiatrist debrides a callous (that used to be a foot ulcer), does it immediately turn into another foot ulcer so that he has to wear the shoe boot thing again?

I mean, isn't debriding cutting away, and if he cuts away, doesn't that again make a hole???

Today, he decided not to do the sponge thing.

Also, (and this went completely against the doctor's instructions), Alan does not put the orthotics inside his slippers in the house. Now Alan doesn't do a lot of walking in the house, just to the bathroom and back. And outside of the house, he always wears the orthotics.

So my question is "should we call the podiatrist and say "Alan's ulcer area is now calloused, should he come in?" (Alan refuses to do this). Alan says "I don't want to bother the doctor, I have a callous, all he will do is debride it, I won't use the spongee thing attached to my orthotic anymore".

Or should I just let the man be in peace, drive me crazy and let him suffer the consequences.

I just looked at it. He came out of the shower. It does not look like an ulcer, it simply looks like a callous. Is this what happens to foot ulcers when they finally heal?? Do they usually develop into a callous.

In the past, he has always taken his pumice stone and filed down the callouses. He, of course, knows not to do this.

Any idea would be most welcome. I would hate to go back to where we were 18 months ago.

Thanks so much if any of you are foot ulcer, callous savvy out in neuropathy land.

Melody