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One of my friends that is diabetic has been suffering with a cascading series of infections for the past four years. A month ago, he decided to have his foot amputated after a series of bone removals and infections left his foot so mangled that he couldn't even bear weight on it. He is now home and mending. I've been helping him as I could while he was in the hospital, and we went food shopping for him last night.

The friend went public with it yesterday, and since I have a handful of friends here that are friends IRL, I've held off talking about it until he gave word himself.

Those of you that are diabetic or are prone to it, please take care of yourselves. I know that seeing him suffer with the disease was an impetus for me to make some dietary changes as I could.

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