One of the latest emails from the ADA talked about the threat of pneumonia. The threat to "old folks" is that pneumonia weakens their bodies for the illness that kills them...
"That what doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"That which doesn't kill us makes us vulnerable to that which can kill us!".
Me...
There was a rather horrifying statistic about the incidence of diabetics in children. This is both type 1 and type 2. I've got to wonder how this will impact on military recruitment when these kids come of age.
I can see the Armed Forces not "ingesting" the type 1s but the type 2s will be a different matter.
Then, I thought of the "boots's" feet. ('Boots' is the old expression for enlisted recruits...)
Then, I thought of the "boots's" feet.
I remember the boots ("boondockers") and "low cut" dress shoes I was issued in Navy Boot Camp in September 1970. The leather was very rough and everyone got blisters. Some of these blisters bleed and that made them possible infection sites.
The second Thursday of December (the 14th), I got a blister on my "left index toe". This appeared to be infected so my family MD had me on anti-bodies for ten days.
Around Christmas, I was outside barefoot and scrapped by right heel on the shoe. Fortunately, I still had two antibotic pills to go when this happened.
So, no infection and skin is growing over the "wound" site.
I was diagnoses as a type 2 on 7 May 2004. I've been "lucky". I have to wonder how many diabetics would be "booted out" of Boot Camp with serious foot wounds or possibly misxsing foot parts.
I doubt it the V A is ready to deal with this...
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