sometimes calluses are pretty diffuse
and they don't cause us much pain and
sometimes they can be very localized or
right in a weight-bearing area and can
be really painful to walk with this
gentleman has had these calluses for
many years and to look at them it had to
feel
like he had a little pebble embedded in
his skin all the time so hopefully i was
able to give him some relief and
hopefully we'll be able to get these not
to be so bad in the future
so who else in your family has calluses
like this
what you're used to they just amputated
her legs oh no she's diabetic yeah
no she got blood clots uh-huh and then
it led to a lesion and then the legion
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the same as chicago with less wind yeah
but you know how folks get in there
i do
of course you want to stay there and be
grandma
but
that you see that
you deal with
dealing with your granddaughter or
it's gonna be a system of living because
you don't want to come to minnesota
and that would be full of pandemic of
course
i had a room for her and everything yeah
now is your wife still in the house or
no yeah she's still in there oh okay all
right we take care of hug mom too
like you can come back at the same thing
thank you so much you gotta do it wake
up and go to sleep
everything else taken care of i cooked
and the wife
anger and all that stuff
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yeah
we're all kind of that way aren't we
yeah that's why i don't argue
i don't know i wouldn't want to pack up
and go to another state
but you know just for the better
and that's why i couldn't understand
this thing on the bottom of my foot that
i would really think
but one the two things on the side look
like shrek
this is
they take
they take the cake and now he's crazy
yeah they call these are called
cutaneous horns
oh wow so everybody get them or just no
no lucky one you're one of the lucky
ones but it just means that it's a
callus
that grows
kind of in the shape of a horn because
i'm trying to put some of that liquid
stuff on there but yeah don't use that
no don't that is um
acid yes
it's a salicylic acid
yeah and it'll burn a hole in your skin
in fact yes
i just have a patient right now in my
clinic where we're going to have to
amputate the toe because they burned a
hole in it
yeah it got it got infected and the
bone's infected now
because they were using that salicylic
acid liquid on the callus no
and just went too far
so but but my what i was saying before
is these are going to continue to come
back yeah and so for as long as you're
here you're welcome to come every month
that we come
and i can trim these down
and
maybe over time we can get them to be a
little smaller yeah
and um
a lot of just in the hospital i'm
supposed the scene about podiatrists
but um
he was backed up all the way to
march something
oh do you want to know something you've
got your own personal podiatrist right
here i'll see you didn't even have to do
it in the hospital she came all the way
over here to see you
your christmas gift from god to you
i know i'm not a gift from god yes you
are
i was walking like all walking on
thumbtacks
well i can see why this would feel that
way it would be like you're walking with
a piece of gravel in your skin yeah
you described it exactly yeah
and then i had to learn to be shaking
out my shoes
yeah so i think what i'll do is next
next month when i come i'm going to
bring you a cream
that's going to help keep this softer
again they're going to keep coming back
but if we can manage them then you won't
have the kind of pain you're having now
oh wonderful okay trying to put on shoes
with these things i have to stretch the
shoe out to the side and all that yeah
yeah my sister kept telling me she was
like you don't you don't regret letting
your feet get like that because you walk
on them every day well but of course you
walk on them every day that's what
they're for yeah you know and and this
isn't anything you could have helped
this is just your genetics
all right so let's get this one
you let me know if anything i'm doing is
hurting okay oh no
does that hurt when you walk i'm
actually gonna put a
new blade on
when you walk does that side hurt right
here yeah
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and uh that's when they bumping up
rubbing up against the boot or the shoe
yeah yeah that's pretty funny
okay and don't let me forget there's one
down here i gotta get before we're done
i got three of
them wow
those are a long time coming you have to
have been building these up for a long
time
like i said i've been trying to put that
but i'm glad you told me um doctor
because
i was putting a lot of it too
yeah what that stuff does is you know it
it's supposed to like chew all the thick
skin up and turn it to mush
but
if you can't
if you don't have a really good view of
what you're doing and this would be a
very difficult spot to see
you don't know when it's going too deep
and then it'll if you go too deep it'll
eat away the good skin underneath and
then you'll have scars
right
seem like you make up enough noise about
yourself
pain
yeah
don't need no extras
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you're giving my blades a run for their
money man
oh look at that left like a big hole
right there
that's got to be painful this thing is
not
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now even when you were working as a cook
and and standing on your feet all day
these had to be horrible yes
have you had these most your life yes
okay
well i tried i had a
yeah yes that's what she'll use to
smooth this when she's done that work
since until my grandson
broke it yep
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how do you break a drill
if you leave it to a boy they'll figure
it out i have no lessons
good
wow you won't believe your feet
i don't know
i believe that if i know it feels better
already yeah get all that pressure off
yes
i take
you're going to wake up at night in the
middle of the night tonight you're going
to wake up and you're going to think
my feet whose feet are these on my body
yeah because they will feel so different
yeah because calluses like this i would
imagine they would throb yes and then
when i try to get up in the middle of
the night and run to the bathroom it
seems like they get worse that's what
the house shoes on
and then i'm kind of flat-footed so
i just can't win yeah
you're pretty tough dude though
some people just give up
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i love that
all attitude
uh so you said
that even though they laid you off
that you still have your insurance yes
all right then i'm gonna give you a
prescription for this cream so you don't
have to wait until next month oh okay to
start using it and i just happen to
bring my prescription pad with me today
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so i'll write you a prescription and
that will help and then i do want to see
you back next month
you