Almost 1 year ago my mother was admitted in a rehab facility during this time a podiatrist arrived and in his attempt to clean my mother's toe nails he accidentally cut a piece of her skin. Due to this insanity my mother has progressive gangrene on three of her toes. Her toes never healed due to her diabetes and she will possibly get all her toes amputated. My mother has been receiving HBOT for 2 weeks now, but I am not sure how much will this help her. It's outrages how something like this could happen to her at a professional facility. Patients aren't safe even in hospitals and in the hands of doctors. My mother has and continues to suffer great pain.

My dad had stage III advance to Stage IV with sepsis, staph and MRSA. After he had a debrivement, the bedsores still advanced. With all the trials of antibiotics, he started to smell like a dead animal. His ears, his ankles, his whole body seemed to rot away and he loss 40 lbs. now only weighing 128 lbs. at 5'11" tall. He was in a nursing home when all this started. Even bedsores on the bottom of his feet. He was so tall in his wheel chair, his feet sat flat on the floor. Once my dad was diagnosed with Sepsis and MRSA to the point of debrievement. Does he have any chance of survival? I've been researching on this web site I think the answere is no.

My dad is diabetic and he has developed wet gangrene in his right toe thumb. He is hospitalized and is on insulin and antibiotics. Huminsulin 50/50 is given to him three times a day. There is some swelling on his toe. During the last five days the swelling has reduced marginally and some wrinkles can be seen but he is not able to stand properly. He feels his legs are slipping while walking. We will appreciate your suggestion to avoid amputation.

My 90-year-old father has dry gangrene on his small left toe. He has other health problems: poor circulation, congestive heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. His cardiologist and podiatrist disapprove of surgical removal of the toe. A bone scan shows no infection to the bone. He has been in the hospital since May 3rd getting antibiotics.

I was woken up after surgery and told that I had gangrene on my left hand and to keep it under the blankets. My hand was paralyzed. Everything inside my hand died: my tendons and ligaments. I lost almost all of the feeling in my hand. I could poke it and not feel a thing on my skin. A plastic surgeon kept trying to cut off my entire hand. My family stopped him several times while I was asleep. Even after I woke up, his students kept on coming to me. First, they were trying to talk me into letting them take off half of my hand. They said I could probably keep my thumb. The next time, they wanted to just snip off my fingers. I never let them. When all is said and done, I ended up losing one-third of my first and pinky fingers and about half of my two middle ones.

Working in a remote area clinic in a third world country, I often come across patients with gangrene. One in particular recently had an amputation of his toes. Now, only a month after the operation he has gangrene up to his knee on the same leg. He has not yet been tested for HIV but my feeling is that he could be positive. Thank you.