"A small cut on his toe cost him his right leg."
He felt nothing when he stepped on a nail at his workshop — diabetic nerve damage had killed the sensation. By the time his wife noticed the smell three days later, the foot was black. Doctors at FMC Umuahia gave the family a choice: amputate below the knee, or watch him die from sepsis. He now sits at home. His apprentices run the workshop he built for 22 years.
Sugar was 'managed' with metformin. Nobody told him about the feet.






