[AMP-L] BK Amputee's Shared Purpose and Support Group

[Wayne Renardson]

via Vidant Health:

In 2000, Millie Shinn developed an ulcer on her right heel. A 
complication of Shinn´s Type 1 diabetes, the ulcer continued to grow, 
requiring Shinn to seek treatment and ultimately, a heel reconstruction.  

When that did not heal properly, she said she knew amputation was a 
possibility, though she wasn´t willing to accept it yet. Fast forward to 
February of 2002 and Shinn was still in bandages from the surgery. 
After a trip to the Emergency Department, Shinn met with her doctors 
and they decided it was time to amputate her right leg below the knee.  

"My husband was with me and even the nurse that was taking care of 
me, we were all just bawling before the surgery," Shinn said of her 
experience before her first amputation at Vidant Medical Center (VMC). 
"It was not something that I thought would happen to me ... I really 
wasn´t sure what to expect.  

The rest of the story, with photos, here:  

https://tinyurl.com/y3tuuocu

Wayne R.