NHMike wrote:If you're ramping up on walking, you need to pay a lot of attention to your feet: toes, balls of feet, heel, etc. Those parts can take a real beating. One of my problems is that my left foot is about 1/2 size longer than my right foot. It would be nice if you could get shoes in differing sizes. The usual approach is to get the bigger size and then modify using lacing or objects to get the smaller foot to fit.
Caat55 wrote:NHMike wrote:If you're ramping up on walking, you need to pay a lot of attention to your feet: toes, balls of feet, heel, etc. Those parts can take a real beating. One of my problems is that my left foot is about 1/2 size longer than my right foot. It would be nice if you could get shoes in differing sizes. The usual approach is to get the bigger size and then modify using lacing or objects to get the smaller foot to fit.
Yes I have very tired feet. And got a blister yesterday on one of my toes I've never done that in anything but hiking boots. We're going to be a little bit more lazy today. Left foot is also bigger than right foot, but I'm left-handed. Are you?
NHMike wrote:A friend's wife is dying from a lung infection from Mycobacterium abscessus which is an antibiotic bacteria. I asked my kids to do some research on it including current treatments and I'll need to go through the stuff that they found but my son did explain to me how older generation antibiotics work and how newer ones work. There are a lot of scary things out there besides cancer and a lot of them don't have the research money that cancer has.
O Stoma Mia wrote:NHMike wrote:A friend's wife is dying from a lung infection from Mycobacterium abscessus which is an antibiotic bacteria. I asked my kids to do some research on it including current treatments and I'll need to go through the stuff that they found but my son did explain to me how older generation antibiotics work and how newer ones work. There are a lot of scary things out there besides cancer and a lot of them don't have the research money that cancer has.
You mentioned antibiotic bacteria above . Did you mean "anaerobic bacteria"?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28874407
NHMike wrote:I got in 61 miles the past seven days. I probably could have done more if I didn't have to manage all of the blisters.
Yesterday, a co-worker came in to ask me questions about colonoscopies and medical coverage here (he's an ex-pat from Germany). Later on, another co-worker came to ask me about investments and also wanted to talk about a medical issue with his wife. I told him that I had cancer and that I had been in treatment for a year and he was rather floored as he said that I don't look like I have cancer (we chat in the gym from time to time). Unfortunately these sorts of things usually mean that I have to work at home later in the evening to get my stuff done. .
NHMike wrote:... It's Mycobacterium Abscessus. It's really nasty to go through treatment and a lot of people don't survive, even with treatment.
O Stoma Mia wrote:NHMike wrote:... It's Mycobacterium Abscessus. It's really nasty to go through treatment and a lot of people don't survive, even with treatment.
This sort of thing can happen with other cancer treatments, too. There is a case study on record of a Xeloda patient with HFS who developed a rare infection that became septic and would not respond to any of the known antibiotics at the time:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/fullarticle/1105187
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