My husband had a below the knee amputation in 2020 due to Charcot foot, that no doctor recognized in our rural area. It's like noone even knew what it was. They just kept putting steroid injections in his deformed looking foot, until I insisted that he have xrays again
By that time the bones were crumbling, the bottom of his femur was completely broken off and worn away on the other. The talus was unrecognizable in his really bad foot. And he ended up with a non healing ulcer on that… read more