The case of the foot
It was a corn in her foot. That was what the doctor found on 6th May. They planned to do an excision and she would go home. Plain and simple. They cut it out, stiched it with blue thread that they would need to remove with time, doused the foot in iodine. We thought the corn looked bigger than what we thought a corn should be. We were thankful. The pain in the foot would go, within a week or two, she would be on her feet. Tell me why it is September and the pain is still there. There is a whole thread of history. In between pictures of tiles, trees and house discussions, there are pictures I cannot delete from my phone, this wound in all its forms. First as a surgical wound, then stitched, then wide open, then yellow but closing - then pictures of her foot, now dark - signs of gangrine. We had been told that we need to get her to India within two weeks or there would be a high risk of losing her leg. Leg, not foot, and in fact, it appeared as though both feet were affected and not g...
