Question:
Iron Age Safety Shoes are the best!!!
They are based in Pittsburgh Pa. Been wearing them for years!!!!!!!1
Answer:
Circulation problems, I would imagine. He was a T1. That was over 30
years ago and I really didn't know much about diabetes at the time.
One of the guys knew to give him his orange juice that he always had
in his lunch box if he had "an insulin reaction."
That also was just when safety regulations were just going into effect
requiring us to wear safety shoes and hard hats. I suspect he went to
his doctor, told the doctor he didn't want to wear them and got a
written doctor's slip so he wouldn't have to wear them.
They tried to tell the rest of us that we even needed to wear the hard
hats while we were in the trees either trimming them or topping them.
Most of us would wear them until we got into the tree and then
"accidentally" knock them off so they would fall to the ground. We
felt they restricted our field of vision and were more of a hindrance
than safety devise.
Hopefully present doctors are enlightened enough to advise him to get
correctly fitted safety shoes. Crushed toes are not worth thinking about
for a diabetic.
I should have mentioned that one evening after dinner he went into the
living room, set back in his recliner to watch the television while
his wife cleaned up in the kitchen. When she finished and went in to
join him he had died of a massive heart attack. I guess he didn't have
to worry at all about the safety shoes or the hard hat.
He was in his early fifties at the time and was just trying to hold on
to his job until he could retire. There had been no signs of heart
disease, but we know now what diabetes can do to the heart. That is
one reason I now take a statin even though I have had no sign of any
high cholesterol or heart problems.
