Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
AFTER his toe was run over by a woman on a mobility scooter while on holiday in Spain, Donal O?Brien waited patiently for the injury to heal.
What he didn?t know at the time was that he was a Type 2 diabetic ? and that as a result the accident would cost him his lower leg.
When the 72-year-old collapsed while volunteering at the Strathspey Steam Railway in Aviemore after he returned from the holiday, he went to see his GP.
Donal was immediately sent to St John?s Hospital in Livingston, where a specialist said he suspected Donal had diabetes as soon as he looked at him, before tests confirmed the condition. However, that was not the first shock of his hospital stay.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health...lost-a-toe-finally-it-cost-me-a-leg-1-2713294
What he didn?t know at the time was that he was a Type 2 diabetic ? and that as a result the accident would cost him his lower leg.
When the 72-year-old collapsed while volunteering at the Strathspey Steam Railway in Aviemore after he returned from the holiday, he went to see his GP.
Donal was immediately sent to St John?s Hospital in Livingston, where a specialist said he suspected Donal had diabetes as soon as he looked at him, before tests confirmed the condition. However, that was not the first shock of his hospital stay.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health...lost-a-toe-finally-it-cost-me-a-leg-1-2713294