“I started [blood-glucose] testing again because I’ve had a pain of varying intensity in my right foot for more than a month now. Surprisingly my plan of doing nothing hasn’t worked, and it has only gotten worse. It’s a burning sensation along the right side, but also more than that.
Basically, my foot hurts. And it has me thinking about the possibility of losing a foot, a leg, my life to this disease.”
“Live by the blood glucose meter, die by the blood glucose meter”, Me; February 18, 2011
“Time won’t save our souls / Time won’t save my soul / I never thought I’d see it coming / I never thought I’d ever know / Nothing seems to take me over / Nothing seems to let me go…”
“Shuffle Your Feet”, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club; ‘Howl’ (2005)
Turns out foot pain, or, in layman’s terms, the throbbing pain in my foot, has more than one cause. And, funny thing, in order to find that cause it’s almost a necessity to find a medical professional.
Sitting around with your girlfriend, waving randomly at your foot and whimpering is not, it turns out, a recommended diagnostic procedure. Even if it’s done during House.
Tuesday morning I called my family doctor, thinking I could get an emergency appointment. I told the nurse my foot had been throbbing for over a month, and I thought it was because of the diabetes.
She asked what the numbers were, I told her I was averaging in the low-20’s. She told me to get to the Emergency Room immediately. Then she told me my family doctor would see me… in four months. There’s an entire month’s worth of posts about the Canadian medical system in that sentence.
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...salted lithium. 