Barbara H.
In a message dated 8/1/98 10:49:38 AM EST, FHargr3092(AT)aol.com writes:
> Hello all, JanH here. I want to caution those who
> have regained their ability to walk but still have little
> or no feeling in their feet---Be most careful about
> going without shoes when you're outdoors. I have
> gone barefoot most of the summer as the gravel/
> grass has not irritated because of lack of feeling.
> By doing this, I put myself at risk!!! Sometime this
> summer I got a splinter in the ball of my left foot.
> When I finally realized that my foot hurt, we attempted
> to find the splinter. My hubby used his jeweler's eye-
> piece/tweezers and could not find. I kept neosporin
> and bandage on it for a week as it continually gained
> in level of pain!! Friday I went to walk-in clinic at my
> drs office and the first doc said "Hospital with antibiotic
> IV as this can escalate rapidly". Second doc said "You
> know she has little to no feeling so this is bad-I agree
> that we need to move rapidly. Let's have the infectious
> man look at it." So he was paged and I was sent to the
> lab for bloodwork. When I returned to clinic, the infec-
> tious man was there (he's my regular doc). He decided
> to go a strong antibiotic at home and gave me til Monday
> at 1:30 to have improved or we'll start cutting---this little
> splinter has caused an abcess in my foot.
>
> Please don't let this happen to any of you. I really am
> smarter than this makes me seem--I just didn't think!! It
> never hurt when I was barefoot so I thought I was ok>>DUH!
>