Hi, we are looking for advice, both myself and my husband are type 1 diabetics, however last August my husband had an accident leading to infection in his toe, he has had several inpatient experiences, where lots of mistakes have been made by his medical team, including not treating the infection aggressively with IV, not actually informing us he had a severe infection in his foot which led to severe anaemia and blood transfusions, after an appointment with his consultant yesterday, it felt like 'the end of the road' we were told the IV antibiotics he has had for the last 6 weeks have not improved the infection so they are stopping them, they have put him on oral to 'keep infection at bay' we are worried this will not work and the infection could continue to spread, we are also worried we haven't been offered any other form of alternative treatments, he is only 43, the structure of the foot has collapsed, it has severe swelling, open wounds from debridement and we were told, he has to consider quality of life versus amputation, it feels so sudden and no other options have been put on the table from the consultant, can this possibly be it? We are informed the MRI shows severe infection back to the heel, multiple fractures but that's it, they keep mentioning something called Sharko, today is the last day medi-home are coming, they say there is no point continuing with IV anti-biotics because if my husband got 'really ill' and needed aggressive anti-biotic therapy in the future it may not work so they have put him on orals. We just don't know what to think or where to turn, we know the hospital knew about the osteomyelitis in December but failed to tell us or treat it aggressively until January when he was readmitted severely anaemic and needing blood transfusions, they did every test in the world to try and find bleeding in the body, but there was none, it appears the anaemia was simply due to the infection in the bones of his foot, they also knew about the anaemia in December and in fact when they discharged him he was already so anaemic he should have been having transfusions at that time, instead he was readmitted four days after discharge very poorly, they didn't investigate or treat the anaemia and they didn't inform him he had this osteomyelitis that would lead to the situation we are in now which is, amputation? Does anyone know of other treatments? possibilities? etc, we would be grateful for any advice. Many thanks