Sorry, didn't know that was her foot.
Oh no, the pictures are just generic, but yes, her toe looked a lot like that, it was pretty gnarly looking.
I told the doctor that I am terrified of messing with her feet because the least little thing can set this off.
If you cut the toe accidentally while trimming a toenail, or any kind of a cut to the toes at all you run the risk of setting off a bone infection.
It all boils down to crappy circulation in the lower extremities, and most paraplegics have lousy leg circulation.
She doesn't have a spinal cord injury, she has multiple sclerosis, but it technically makes her a paraplegic even though she still has some feeling in certain parts of her legs and feet.
Anyway, what I was getting at is, ignoring stuff like a government shutdown and thinking it doesn't do any harm is just like a paraplegic ignoring or neglecting their feet, or any able bodied person ignoring a bad infection. You think it's just minor until the infection hits your bloodstream.
Then all of a sudden you turn septic and go into toxic shock and you can be dead in a matter of hours.
The entire notion that a government shutdown, even a partial one, is benign is sheer lunacy.
I suspect that, just like the last time, the Centers for Disease Control will be shut down.
Imagine a severe epidemic suddenly hits part or all of the United States, and the CDC's network of techs and researches are all home on furlough.
Or imagine that a severe winter storm is about to hit the East Coast and the National Weather Service is closed, so no advanced forecasting is available.
Or imagine that a sudden severe epidemic hits the food supply somewhere, and the FDA is closed.
This is mass madness. It is playing Russian Roulette.