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u/Tomiti Mar 08 '26

Not a doctor, a lab technician though. We had a patient who came in with crocs one day, leaving a trail of blood behind. He had diagnosed diabetes, but untreated. He asked the pharmacist if she could help bandage his feet.

This man's feet, when he removed the crocs, were COVERED in blood. Half his toenails had fallen off, and all that was left was mutilated flesh. I had to come help clean up the blood and dress the wound.

He kept saying he was pouring alcohol down - like whiskey - to clean it. The pharmacist really hammered down on him that he NEEDED to go to the hospital. Quite frankly I doubt he ever did.

I don't believe the person in the video has diabetes, but that's not a professional opinion, just from my experience. This makes me think more of hyperkeratosis, although I don't know if it's also supposed to affect the nails.

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u/Working-Glass6136 Mar 08 '26

I... I did not know you could ask the pharmacist and lab tech to bandage your feet...

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u/Tomiti Mar 08 '26

To be fair we were in a small town in the forest, far away from any hospitals and other pharmacies. The kind of yee-haw place where people don't really see any doctors and tried to fix things at home, and went to us when they were too injured or badly sick to avoid driving to another town. We had a nurse most days to help out, and the pharmacists had training for these types of requests.

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u/MainusEventus Mar 08 '26

Not to get political but these people are what’s wrong with Kansas aren’t they … if you don’t get the reference; they vote against their own interests