[Magdalen] Provisional diagnosis.

[Jay Weigel]

I had several home health patients with this type of thing who were not
diabetic. Bad circulation does not necessarily equate with diabetes,
although many if not most diabetics have bad circulation.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike, it sounds as if you have caught this early.  I pray that means the
> treatment can arrest it in short order.  Please take care of yourself.  I
> hope you have adequate pain relief.
>
> Ginga
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:23 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
> > >>>A diagnosis is a first step.  The fact that your legs do not look like
> > the pictures, which were presumably selected for their effect, is a good
> > sign especially when combined with the initial medical observation that
> > you presented relatively early.  Prayers for a good healing.<<<
> >
> > Thanks.  One place I read said that if not that diagnosis, it could be
> > more directly related to diabetes, which I will only know if I have it
> > within the near future when I visit my regular doc and who will run the
> > appropriate bloodwork.  But this doc, knowing I don't know if I'm
> diabetic
> > yet, hasn't pressed on that idea, and is confident enough to send me to
> the
> > Stanford specialist whose thing is what he thinks I have.  Besides, even
> if
> > directly diabetes-related, it is what it specifically is, and the
> > treatment, in my mind, would still be the same, though stemming from a
> > different cause.
> >
>