for you sweet little toe, when my Mama did that miracles happened!!
Besides a stitch would of caused more nerve dammage,which would
of caused more cuzing,with would caused you not to be amused. If is
turns red cut it off, what did i just say,never mine. It must of
been the fever. Why i would never tell you cut off your toe,i'm just
in a state of . Let's see,kiss ,kiss,bad stitches,bad cut
rotten glass. There that's it,and Mel your flowers look
purty as a picture. Sue

--it's looks like you did the right thing; considering you were fairly sure there was no glass in the cut--likely if the bleeding was free, but then stopped during a normal clotting time--the protocol of cleanse and protect seems to have done the job.

You'll likely be sore for a while, but that shouldn't be anything time won't fix. Feel good.

How are you healing and feeling? I was just thinking about how for many of us isn't it scary how we have to fear going to the doc because it may flare up are other issues. Well I hope your hanging in there.

Tell me and tell me now, say the kisses worked or did the dang toe
fall off????? please tell me???

Toe is still attached! Doing well and healing nicely. Sorry to worry you! This has made me laugh much!

That is *so* true. If my cholesterol isn't down a good bit by Jan I think it is, my doc said she was putting me on medicine for it. Ummm...no, you're not. I already have PN and those kinds of meds are known to cause PN. Is she nuts?? More likely uninformed. I'd rather have high cholesterol than PN. I'm working on the cholesterol with diet, exercise and supplements/vitamins. That's as good as it's gonna get.

Good. She can't put you on it unless you agree. You may know more about it than she does.

A doc "put" my aunt on a statin. I had her taken off it immediately, got her to take an excellent fish oil with extra EPA and DHA, cut down on transfats and take other carefully chosen supplements.

The changes in her labs amazed me. I know there would be good changes, but didn't dare hope for that good. Her "bad" cholesterol came down a little bit, but her "good" cholesterol came up a lot. We got her blood pressure down too.

If you have the collection of cardio problems and high cholesterol, drugs may be helpful. But if not, they could be disastrous.

rose

thinking about 'connections'. So I thought back a long time ago about when the only med I took was for my thyroid, then my BP and cholesterol #'s were going up but I was very active and healthy and all that.
Soo, I webbed up 'statins + thyroid' and this is the very first thing I find:
http://healthletter.tufts.edu/issues...08/statin.html
I was on the statins for about 3 months, it didn't lower my BP or Cholesterol 3's, only a migraine like headache. I stopped the statins and just cooked w/less oils and salt. It helped a lot!
Hope this helps! - j

--with that article link; the fact that this doctor discusses statins/cholesterol in the larger picture of metabolic concerns and diet is important, as too many doctors only see a one-factor cause relationship for elevated cholesterol levels.

I particularly like the comment "I think it’s difficult for doctors because they don’t have a lot of time. They’re trained to diagnose things and give people pills. They’re not really trained to do nutrition." Now where have we heard that before?

Thanks for the article! Is brings to mind a point I've made before: Many doctor's are too darn quick to throw medication at a problem before trying common sense methods first. High Cholesterol? Try lifestyle changes first. And isn't there a difference between just a little high and very high? Lifestyle changes will correct the underlying problem/cause of the high cholesterol to begin with. Many people who are given meds for this purpose are quick to believe that because they take a med to lower their cholesterol they don't have to make any other changes. Used to be that meds were the second line of defense rather than the first.

The thing missed, forest for the trees kind of stuff, is that for people my age drugs are about the worst choice to make. Especially if there are no other problems along with the high cholesterol readings...yet. Catch us early enough, make the proper changes and we will probably never need to take a statin or other type of cholesterol med. Of course this all depends on other health factors. For me PN was making it difficult to walk as much and as often as I would like to. But that's another post and another subject altogether which I'll be posting on a bit later. Good news, though, so no one worries in the meantime. Giving people my age these kinds of drugs when we're capable of correcting the problem ourselves ends up creating *more* and worse physical problems than the high cholesterol we started with!

I especially like the Doctor's point about people needing to be taught a healthier lifestyle. Two visits to a dietitian is not going to do the job. Granted there are people that are more willing to do it on their own, read about it, study on it and apply what they learn. But for others they need more help. Insurance companies...*BLEH*.