Careful With Your Pedicure!
If you’re diabetic, no matter how well you are controlled, there is always a chance that any injury to your toes can have disastrous consequences. The fact that circulation to the toes is rather poor, and that diabetics are known to have a tendency to heal slower, plus the fact that wounds in the lower limbs are more likely to be contaminated, does not help much. Also add to that the possibility that there may have been some pre-existing nerve damage and numbness of the toes.
Result: disaster.
Things just happen.
See the story about a diabetic lady from Melbourne, Florida, who is suing a manicure shop for a botched pedicure that ultimately resulted in the surgical amputation of 2 toes due to gangrene. It’s just an unfortunate occurrence. Who’s at fault? Hard to say…
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