What a coincidence

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Flower

Flower

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Well I never! Today someone came to my house to give me a quote for a new accessible shower with handles.
When I opened the door he had one leg in a cast and when he saw I was on crutches with my leg in a cast said “I’ve got something called Charcot foot, no-one has ever heard of it, what happened to your leg?” Err I’ve got Charcot foot too.

I’ve only ever met others with Charcot foot in a specialist foot clinic in a London Hospital, it’s thankfully a pretty rare complication of diabetes. I’ve lived with Charcot foot for about 25 years and have never met anyone else with it, it’s a lonely club yet the plumbers/bathroom fitter that got back to me & turned up has got Charcot foot. The odds of that happening must be pretty tiny.

We compared X-rays before discussing showers. It’s like seeing a pump user in the wild but even more rare. We had a discussion about how diabetes complications can hit you out of the blue and really stop you in your tracks.

What a coincidence.
 
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Wow that's a chance in a million Flower, I hope you managed to have a good long chat as like you say it's as good as meeting a pumper in the wild 🙂

Last few Months I have met 2 newbies in the village where I live one is a pumper and the other lady has had type1 for 50 years. That's pretty good for a very small village 🙂
 
I’m still amazed, the odds of that happening must be tiny. We did have a long chat about it and were both diagnosed with Charcot late after a misdiagnosis.

That’s pretty cool @Pumper_Sue to find 2 new people 1 with a pump and another with 50 years of T1 in the wild & in your village 🙂
 
I’d get a lottery ticket this weekend if I were you @Flower, the odds of winning that can’t be much higher than your bathroom fitter having Charcot foot as well.

Don’t forget, the actual fittings and labour cost are VAT exempt if they are solely to allow you to have a shower fitted to help you with your disability. I’m getting fittings in the shower that I will be getting VAT free fitted quite soon.
 
Wow! How amazing @Flower

And it really tickled me that you just dived straight into comparing xrays before moving on to plumbing!

Medical conditions can be quite isolating - but they can also make weirdly immediate connections with complete strangers!
 
It's amazing how often one in a million coincidences happen.
You hear or see a word you have never seen before and you then see it again almost immediately or meet somebody who lives in another part of the country and get chatting and they know somebody you know.
 
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