Rozzie:

Yeah, I know all about the infection thing with the foot ulcers. He's been there, done that. The very last time he got an infection was many many months ago, Might have been a year. Oh, I remember what happened. He was bleeding and because he has absolutely no feeling in his feet, he just started taking out the skin around the ulcer. There was an actual bigger hole than there was before.

I looked at him and said "are you out of your mind, you have an infection, you don't go putting your hands in there and taking out the remaining area."

I had to literally drag him to the podiatrist who yelled at him. The podiatrist debrided it and I have never seen a hole so big in my life. He told us to come back in three days. You would not believe how fast this man heals (because he is not a diabetic). His hole was almost closed.

The doctor marveled and said "look at this, you would never know that three days ago, he had a whole bigger than a quarter"!!!! The doc had put him on antibiotics at that time.

But thankfully there has been no infections since. Just his darn ulcer and debridement after debridement, shoe boot after shoe boot.

Oh, my husband just made a video and we are uploading it onto youtube. I'll post it right on this thread.

You'll get to see him and his humor and his cast and his wheelchair. We find it very helpful in his recovery.

Take care,

Melody