2005-05-10
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Diabetes sucks #5789
Around the middle of last week I managed to rip a nice chunk of skin off my foot (on the outside. halfway between the ankle and the bottom). Not that big. Maybe the size of the end of a AAA battery.
That was painful. But cleaning it is a royal pain. And "inspecting" it (which is necessary for foot and leg injuries on diabetics) is just barely possible.
And due to my diabetes it may by *weeks* before it's properly "healed over" (as opposed to actually healed.
This means even showers are a pain because the water *will* get up to it. And swimming will be out of the question for some time. Just when I wanted to get back to exercising. :-(
That was painful. But cleaning it is a royal pain. And "inspecting" it (which is necessary for foot and leg injuries on diabetics) is just barely possible.
And due to my diabetes it may by *weeks* before it's properly "healed over" (as opposed to actually healed.
This means even showers are a pain because the water *will* get up to it. And swimming will be out of the question for some time. Just when I wanted to get back to exercising. :-(
I am *such* a geek...
Watching NCIS and they mention y. pestis. And I immediately went "yersina pestis aka bubonic plague".