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Comedian loses leg.

It is a stark reminder of the need to be vigilant !
 
Poor man. I'd like an opinion on the surgey he had which apparently compounded the problem.
 
It's a stark reminder that it's easy to ignore quite obvious symptoms; 15stone to 8 stone in two years without really trying. Those four signs in the video are important; but as a lot of us know on here the symptoms are more insidious with LADA than in T1 in children. So it's far easier to explain them away. As far as I know DUK still doesn't have anything about LADA on it's website.
I've read a similar story before where a man with all the warning signs ignored them and had life changing complications at diagnosis
.https://www.menshealthforum.org.uk/lee-undiagnosed-diabetes-nearly-killed-me
These stories hit me hard because I was very much the same and I did know the symptoms but still managed to rationalise things; I couldn't possibly be T1(too old) and even if I were Type 2, I now was very thin and all Type 2s had to do was lose weight(so I thought)
I now know was so lucky that I haven't suffered any long term consequences.
 
My brother-in-law who is diabetic got a small sore on the sole of his foot. It wouldn't heal and he was in so much pain that 3 times we took him to A&E. Unbelievably, they never even looked at it on 2 occasions. Just sent him home with pain killers. It wasn't til he had a podiatry appointment that they suddenly decided to hospitalise him. By this time he was suffering with septicaemia. He spent over a year in hospital having toes amputated one by one and all the debridement treatments (they even put maggots in a cage over his wound) but it was no use and his leg got redder and more infected further up until he finally opted for amputation. They took his leg off above the knee and he was so weak he couldn't get on with the prosthetic leg.

To cut a long story short, after a fall at home where he broke the hip on his good leg side he is now in a very bad way :(
 
copey399 said:
My brother-in-law who is diabetic got a small sore on the sole of his foot. It wouldn't heal and he was in so much pain that 3 times we took him to A&E. Unbelievably, they never even looked at it on 2 occasions. Just sent him home with pain killers. It wasn't til he had a podiatry appointment that they suddenly decided to hospitalise him. By this time he was suffering with septicaemia. He spent over a year in hospital having toes amputated one by one and all the debridement treatments (they even put maggots in a cage over his wound) but it was no use and his leg got redder and more infected further up until he finally opted for amputation. They took his leg off above the knee and he was so weak he couldn't get on with the prosthetic leg.

To cut a long story short, after a fall at home where he broke the hip on his good leg side he is now in a very bad way :(
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That's so sad to hear, Copey. I hope things improve for him soon.
 
This is awful.. But i would think its a rare case, and partly because of a bad surgery attempt :/

From this article it says he didn't know he had T1D until he entered the hospital, and he said he was having symptoms for the previous 2 years.. That had to come into play.

They did have to preform a surgery, but that SHOULD have been the end of it - its my opinion that (based on the article) they botched the first surgery and grafted too much skin, and did not properly remove/secure the foot bones which resulted in the amputation years later.

I say all of this to make myself feel better - that this will never happen to me! haha But i mean, i never thought T1D could happen to me either, until it did. So now i try extra hard to convince myself that things like this will never happen to me lol
 
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