Wounds, Medical Care, and how to prevent amputations. November 7, 2017

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Really? What is this 'best available care'? Long before leg would be amputated it will be ulcers, and this condition has no care, ether best nether any care. The problems starts long before there is 'no turn' in treatment. There are something can be done. There is nothing.

This is my leg before I went to hospital to get care for this leg. What it was? My Goodness! It was Diuretics, which I cannot take. And no insulin at all. I take 300 units of insulin daily. Now I take more then 400 units. All insulin was dropped right away, and no one units was given to me when I was in hospital. Well, I could take my own insulin, but they do not allow me to take it.  The result, I was discharged from hospital in condition I was there in first place, but with revere rush all over the body. I spent only two days there. No one wound specialist come to my bedside. My legs were wet, dirty, and in pain.
       Time passed. I went to wound care clinic and there I learned to wrap my legs to prevent them from leaks. Wounds are deep inside,  deep right to the bones. THis was now first round of this 'best care' finished.
      After that I take care for my legs with every eve wrap that swelling go down.
Right now my legs are very dark, the color of dark burgundy with purple. From toes to up to knees. When  someone wish to see how diabetic's legs  looks like, simple take GOOGLE and find it out. I post the beginning of the problem, not the end. With time even after one leg is amputated pain still present. The pain in amputated leg, the pain in remaining leg. Wounds open up every day, regardless how much care provided. And really, what is this care?
      The care for diabetic's legs is just dressing the wounds. After nurse, if it nurse done the job, left, dressing got apart, and fail. So simple. Wounds left opened, painful, and leaking. Puss run down on the skin, and drops into the show.
     In hospital in ER there were many of us, diabetics with wounded legs. The same care for every one of us. But does not matter how often nurse come to dress my wounds, they still deep, and there is no way to heal wounds by this type of care.
65,000 amputations every year in America. 82% is due to a vascular disease. This is the condition of Diabetics type 2. What are those amputations? They are preventable. But the problem is not on the skin as it is our kids get cut. The problem is deeper inside, wounds are actually inside, and there is no way those wounds would heal till it is addressed to the cause of those wounds.
       Of cause, our Medical Care see the problem right under eyes. It is our obesity. If we lose weight then we will not have wounds and amputations. Still, it was observed long before insulin era that diabetic's body never stop to develop water. This is why our kidney collapse, and our heart get heavy with water.
      I suggest for every one just imagine. You get cut on your leg, and no care for this cut. What would be next? Infection. If care would not done, it would be amputation. And even death, as it was in pre-penicilin era. This is the care diabetics do have. When it is not too late, there is loose dressing around wounding legs. With time less care more pain.  Finally infection takes its toll.
       The end of the story. Very sad end of it.

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