[rustbucket]

I saw him last week and his right leg is swollen and a spot near his ankle is not healing. This is probably due to the diabetes.

My former sister-in-law's father had a similar problem. The circulation in his leg was so poor that medicines/antibiotics could not get to the non-healing area. He decided to inject or apply medicines directly into the bad area. He did the treatment himself. I'm not sure, but he may have opened up some of the area so he could apply medicine directly to the tissue. I gather it was painful, but it healed the problem area and avoided or greatly delayed amputation.

My mother lost both her legs to diabetes. Her mind was too far gone to take the approach my sister-in-law's father did. One of my mother's legs wept fluid also.

[gleeaikin]

My mother had similar problems. She had horrible varicosities. She had open sores on the inside of her legs just above the ankle for 7 years. Finally she had all her surface veins stripped. When I had my first child 40 years ago, my legs began to hurt so bad that I could not stay on my feet after 8 pm. Then I read Adelle Davis’ books, “Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit” and “Let’s Get Well”. I began to eat better, and take Vitamins E and C among other supplements. In 3 weeks I could be on my feet until midnight with no pain. I have continued with supplements and good diet, and at 72 am in good health with no ailments.

If we all learned how to take good care of ourselves, there would be no need for Obamacare, or it wouldn’t cost so much, and big Pharma would hate us all.

[Syncro]

My former sister-in-law's father had a similar problem. The circulation in his leg was so poor that medicines/antibiotics could not get to the non-healing area.

He decided to inject or apply medicines directly into the bad area. He did the treatment himself. I'm not sure, but he may have opened up some of the area so he could apply medicine directly to the tissue.

I gather it was painful, but it healed the problem area and avoided or greatly delayed amputation.

That looks like a pretty good way to take care of the problem, what with the poor circulation and all.

It's a similar problem to what Jim has.

I'll bet if he knew of this approach he would have tried it!