Hi Chrissy,
Sometimes a sprain can be worse than a break because it take longer to heal and is quite painful. Have you considered a walker or a cane for safety’s sake. It’s easier to fall again once you are nuturing an injury and your balance can be thrown off kilter.
Before I had been diagnosed with CIDP I fell down 5 times and injured both feet my shins and my knees. In my last fall I came to work with a grocery cart and a cane for support, because my feet were black and blue and swollen as well as quite painful. The next day a co-worker brought in her Mom’s four-wheel walker for me to use instead of the cart and the cane. What a blessing that turned out to be!
I can walk around easily now in the house or outside on a level sidewalk, but I always take the walker when I am walking around the rough bumpy sidewalks and sloping driveway with rock where I live. My feet and shins are numb and I am afraid of falling down again. I can’t afford another injury and I would rather be safe than sorry.
My foot drop is improving, but my toes caught on the tread mill a couple of months ago. I was wearing the wrong shoes ( the Croc’s Clogs, )going too fast and my toes caught and dragged me down. I got off with mild injuries which have now healed. Now I wear good walking shoes with orthotics and I can walk heel to toe a lot better. I think I’m the only person who goes into the exercise room with a four-wheel walker, but I wheel to the treadmill and sometimes wheel over to the bicycle.
I am worried that you really need a good neuro and better medical care than you are getting now. I will pray for your ankle to heal fast and that your neuropathy reverses itself in time.

This procedure is so overwhelming. It’s hard to describe the excitement.
Positive energy and prayers will keep Alice safe in this brave new pioneering medical procedure. I can only envision the day when stem cells will be standard procedure for many many diseases.
The both of you have not only supported each other, but the rest of us here and all those worldwide who are suffering. The courage and bravery you have displayed is going to make the world a beter place.
My special blessing for Alice is floating through the unviverse as ultra protection to keep her safe and sound.

I’ll Walk the Line – Johhny Cash

I need to add about the infected gums I had prior to my health meltdown. I always took care to get my gums cleaned every four months for the past 30 years to prevent peridontitis or gingivitis.
My mouth was in perfect shape before a new dentist started cleaning and doing it all wrong with just a cavitron.
In about a year I had to find good hygienist who brought my gums back to health with deep scaling root planing and a powdered antibiotic Arestin.
It was after that when I was diagnosed with Diabetes and my feet were sensitive and painful (I think it was the CIDP).
I know that infected gums can cause a whole cascade of health problems.
When Diabetes invades the body it’s hard to keep the gums healthy.
The IVIG Living magazine described a theory about GBS and said it might be a microbe that infects the body. The microbe may ressembe a nerve and the immune system destroys the nerves. If the theory could be proved maybe a microbe from my gums infected my body and caused CIDP.
Which came first the Diabetes and CIDP or the underlying gum disease. I have a family history of Diabetes.
Now my gums are pink and healthy and I am getting my teeth cleaned every 3months.

Hi Ken!
You are resourceful, knowledgeable and helpful. I have learned a lot from your posts. I am awed and inspired because you are making the best of all the challenges you face.
You are the Best in the World! My Prayers and concern will always embrace you.

I forgot to mention oils. I take Udo’s Choice Oil Blend which is Omega3, Omega6 and Omega 9 in the right proportions. These are called the essential fatty acids. We need omega 3 because our bodies do not produce it and we don’t usually get enough in our diet by eating salmon, tuna or other fish that is high in Omega 3. We are more inclined to get too much omega 6 from our diet and I understand too much omega 6 can cause inflammation. I used to take codliver oil and then flaxseed and even though I was taking Udo’s Choice for quite some time I still got the CIDP. I still take the Udo’s oil, because I don’t know what caused the CIDP and the oil may have helped.
I am going to check out borage oil. Also if you would like to visit
urdoerasmus.com that is a site that explains a lot about the fatty acids.
All oils according to Udo Erasmus blend with all other oils. So I could take olive oil, borage oil, and the oil blend.
Also that site tells the story of Udo Erasmus and how he cured himself from pesticide poisoning when doctor’s could not.

Sophie we all know that Alice is grateful for all your good work and so are the rest of us. We need the encouragement and the knowledge that you are sharing in this undertaking. I can feel the hurricane of positive energy, support, and prayers that are heading your way. I know that you and Alice will be safe in the eye of the hurricane.
I was especially touched when you showed reverence for the little hamsters and rabbits. Alice and many others will soon be living an abundant life because of those little creatures.

In my last post about the government run clinical trials I listed the wrong website. The correct website is clinical trials.gov (not .org).