This is exactly what happened with his orthotics (the ones that went wrong).

He had been fitted and when they arrived, he put them in his shoe and wore them. After a week, he had a fever and I said "why do you have a fever"? The white sock he wears had blood on it. I took off his sock and oh my god, his foot ulcer was all infected and I immediately took him to his podiatrist who treated him and put him on antibiotics. I said "he just got new orthotics". Well, the look on his face. The person who actually made the orthotics did NOT follow the instructions on the prescription. There was supposed to be a depression in the orthotic where Alan's foot ulcer would free float so it would heal. What actually happened was that the orthotics was built up in a place where it rubbed the ulcer, it got worse, it caused an infection and Alan needed antibiotics. Alan is not a diabetic so he heals perfectly fine. We contacted the Orthotic company and the rest is history.

But NOW, we are getting a completely new shoe. It's called a Darko wound healing oft loading shoe. We attended a neuropathy support group meeting last month and one of the members had these shoes on. I asked her to pass them around and they were very impressive. Look up Darko wound healing oft loading shoe (on google) and you'll see what I mean.

The shoe has Velcro closures, it's a rocker shoe, it has 4 insoles (so the doctor can pull out the place that needs to be adjusted for the ulcer). We showed the doctor yesterday ( brought a print out of the actual shoe) and he said "great, go for it".

So in price comparison, over the years, Alan's shoes would cost about $800 and the orthotics almost $400 (or some such nonsensical over-priced cost).

These Darko shoes cost $129.00 and I really think they will do a better job.

Will update when we get them.

Melody