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My latest visit to the hospital by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/10/2018, 1:33pm PDT
A few weeks ago I noticed a "wound" on my foot. It was a circular area about the size of a US half dollar - 30.61 mm / 1.2 " - black, and was fibrous and wet in the middle of my left heel. I was actually able to use fingernails to scoop chunks of black, dead, wet skin out of the hole, of which I felt nothing. Although I did feel some pain underneath it. It was "stringy" pieces of blackened heel skln which were fibrous in nature, eventually leaving behind a hole about 1/2 cm / 1/8" deep. It also smelled bad.

At first I feared it was gangrene but the condition of the wound was wrong. Then, since it was blackened, fibrous skin soaking in a "gel" - a liquid thicker than water - I was afraid it was similar to gangrene, a condition called "liquefaction necrosis" where one of the skin replenishment systems, instead of producing one of the seven layers of skin, only produces the liquid parts of the skin layer with no tissue.

I first went to the Wound Clinic at Washington Adventist Hospital, who told me to go to the hospital.

Fortunately it wasn't either, it was simply a foot wound infection caused by my diabetes. The cure was to kill the infection which would allow the wound to dry and stop releasing putrefacting gel into the would.

After a couple weeks in the hospital I was released to rehab for followup care of about a month. The hole in my foot closed up and now I change the bandage every other day to keep it clean and it heals completely.
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My latest visit to the hospital by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/10/2018, 1:33pm PDT NEW
    We are glad that you made it out okay! NT by Jack Bauer 09/10/2018, 4:07pm PDT NEW
 
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