my journey

i started this blog because i don't want anyone to go through what has been happening to me since 2006 ... or what i have put my husband through.

It's been nine years since i was first told i was a diabetic and within a couple of days i had the big toe on my left foot amputated.  But that failed to 'wake me up'.  Since then i have lost all the toes on both feet, several infections and recent lost my right leg, just below the knee.

This blog will be honest, graphic and hopefully informative.  i just don't want to think about others going through this often preventable illness.  In my case, very preventable.  But all my life, i lived on the 'American diet' of junk foods.

It took being in Highline hospital, just outside of Seattle, for the 24th time in three years to make me realize i cannot go on living as i was.

This is the beginning of my sharing my journey and struggles

ric

September 9, 2015