I'm not discounting anything at all. I agree 100% with everything you said. What is the name of this pre-wrap stuff? If I can afford it, I'll get it.

Alan takes as best care of himself as possible. I believe he has Aspergers and that our son inherited it from his father. Alan was never social, but being married to me, after 28 years, well, he's the social butterfly of our neighorhood now.

It's just that I know more medical stuff than he does. I only do the boot thing in the morning. After that, he's on his own. He takes it off when he's on the couch, and puts it on if he wants to walk to the computer room.

I think he's learned his lesson as far as going to the gym, going on treadmills. This will not happen again.

He paces himself now. He's had neuropathy for 18 years. I cut him a lot of slack because of this.

Melody

Bob started wearing a boot for 15 yrs. do to our head on collison and the brace up to his knee,You did a crative job on the soak.The socks
L.h. reccomended are very good I think she gave you a web site,or sporting good stores...Where his brace was made up have written up paper work
insurace pays for it.the raps.

Bob's is not only his foot but up his knee to get him out the car took hrs.,
He;s been through a lot,but he's 78 and does a great job of taking care of it his rehab insisted he learn,he's glad now he did it was tiresome at first.
Good luck. Bob siad for him to try and leave the hands off the psoriasis along in the part,a rehad nurse yell so loud nobody scratched for a week.lol Just be glad there not Diabetic.With my cancer I'm also glad he learned, Sue

I read an article that said that most mouth ulcers are caused by gluten intolerance. I wonder if that relates to all ulcers? I'm battling a mouth ulcer and so is my husband (strange thing). But we've both been under a lot of stress lately. Melody, I hope Alan's foot continues to improve.

Billye

Thanks Billye:

Since we know for a fact why Alan has the ulcer, the only goal we have now is that as he continues to wear the boot, over time, the ulcer will heal.

If it does not (and the only way we'll know this, is when the time comes and he goes from the C.R.O.W. boot to the custom molded shoes. and if THE ULCER COMES BACK (and this WAY down the road for him), then the only alternative is the osteotomy that the Orthy guy will perform. He explained the whole thing to us. Shaving down the bone alone WON'T ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING. He explained this to us also.

So this is a wait and see thing for us.

I hope you get rid of that mouth ulcer. Never had one. Doesn't sound comfortable?? Is it painful? What do you do, Rinse with something, some antiseptic stuff, or maybe apply vitamin E to it??

I put E on everything. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. But if the body is under stress, the first thing is to take the stress away.

NOT AN EASY THING TO DO, this I know!!!

Take care,

Melody