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Dog Eats Man's Toe and Saves His Life
Have you ever been so drunk that you passed out and your dog ate your toe? I haven't either, but luckily for Michigander Jerry Douthett, he has. It turns out Jerry has type 2 diabetes and a wound on his toe had becoming dangerously infected. After a night of drinking Jerry passed out in his chair and the family dog Kiko decided to do a little doggy doctoring. From the article: "'The toe was gone,' said Douthett. 'He ate it. I mean, he must have eaten it, because we couldn't find it anywhere else in the house. I look down, there's blood all over, and my toe is gone.' [Douthett's wife] Rosee, 40, rushed her husband to the hospital where she's a gerontology nurse — Spectrum Health's Blodgett Campus. Kiko had gnawed to a point below the nail-line. When tests revealed an infection to the bone, doctors amputated what was left of the toe."
Hungry dog saves man's life by eating a toe.
Wow.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
By no means a pleasant option but an interesting way to remove infection.
My work here is dung.
"had becoming"? Really?
.. to sleep through your dog eating part of your body?!?
I'm just wondering how it could have gotten so bad with a nurse in the house?
Diabetic and drinking like a fish. Smooth move, retard.
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I was wondering... did anyone ask the dog whether the toe was sweet? I could bet it was.. ice cream sweet!
They say if you eat a mans toe you gain his strength.
Wasn't that for stealing/cutting his hair? I'd say; Give a dog a toe and you feed him for a day. Teach a dog to hunt for toes and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Is that why they have Bo ? Is it a prototype for ER deployment or elder disposal.
Is what why what? Prototype?
I'm assuming you're with 90% of Americans who have some hard coded objection to treating people who make mistakes like human beings. So therefore I find you annoying. Or maybe you object to Obama's attempt to make the world's richest nation treat people who can't afford healthcare a little better.
Maybe Doggie Howser M.D. (Medical Dog) is on his HMO's list of approved physicians...
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Man gets so drunk, he passes out. Gets a toe injury. While blisteringly drunk. No memory of losing a bit of toe. I don't think blaming the dog for it is the logical conclusion. It's not like blaming the dog for a particularly noxious fart, you know.
Maybe the dog just wanted some booze too, and since he couldn't reach it, he just took advantage of his owner's high BAC and went for the blood. =)
No, there is no "-1 I'LL NEVER ADMIT BEING WRONG!!!" mod.
In this case, "Dog Bites Man" really is news!
Now that's news.
The dog ate my homework. The dog ate my toe. Jeez, man's "best friend" sure takes a lot of crap from us.
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
"Man eats dog's toe and saves his life". Now THATS news.
You have a dog that is known to EAT YOU when you get drunk. Do you keep the dog and wait until you get drunk again, to see what else he eats?
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Gangrenous Toe!
...he didn't have the clap.
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Dude, where's my toe?
"Dog Bites Man" is not news. Wake me when you have "Man Bites Dog"
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How many people find it so implausible that he was so drunk that he couldn't feel his dog eating off his toe...
But have no problems believing a guy could get so drunk that his wife can cut off his dangly bit and take it for a ride?
(and others have already posted the logical reasons as to why he didn't notice: diabetes-related neuropathy most likely, my dad's got it, dropped a razer sharp knife on his foot, went straight through, didn't feel a thing)
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It is technically possible for this to happen, There probably was little feeling in his foot.
This is what a foot looks like in a diabetic patient (warning - gross).
This is a moderate case. This can occur to the ankles.
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Not safe for lunch.
I believe it was Sir Chris Bonington that has his necrotic frost-bitten toe snapped off at a party by a curious nurse. He talks about it in his account of surviving the climb of Annapurna's south face.
o you have a dog that just decided it enjoys gnawing on human extremities while they are not moving. Good dog!
Bet it didn't smell like "my person" but more like "a parasite attacking my person".
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If a person is diabetic doesn't the doctor advise them not to drink heavily or even drink at all.
Really. Good dog, too. Someone give that dog a medal.
Before this happened, his friends and family thought he'd never amount to shit.
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No further elaboration needed...
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I sure hope the dog didn't get sick.
That is all.
> mysteries.
I usually reserve that word for things which don't seem to have any possible scientific explanation. In this case, it's pretty obvious that a dog, which has a sense of smell which is something like two orders of magnitude more sensitive than a human's, could very well manage to detect infection by the odor of various metabolic products generated by bacteria. For the case of cancer, it's less obvious, but it could very well be that some cancers emit peculiar odors because of the mutations in their DNA.
The real issue here is that the guy has a dog that thinks nothing of nomming his owner. I'd be a little freaked out if I was him.
This is a clear case of "dog bites man" and therefore, by definition, not news. Let me know when a diabetic dog's life is saved by his heroic master eating one of his toes.
Man wakes up without toe. man has dog. clearly the dog ate it.
More proof that you should have to take a test in logical thinking before your allowed to drink alcohol, drive, vote, edit slahdot, or use a hand gun.
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It's a dog-eat-gangrenous-infected-extremity world.
I've taken care of a man who had his dog eat not one but two necrotic toes off his feet. Didn't feel a thing - actually, he can't feel anything in his whole foot. Diabetic neuropathy is a bitch.
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Why was a diabetic going out and drinking alcohol, which is nothing but carbs, i.e. sugar?
Your dog wants toe.
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I have understood why this man has let his disease advance so far as to cause the loss of one of his toes. Passing out from a night of drinking isn't something healthy people should do if they want to remain healthy. Needless to say it's not the best thing you can do when you're a type 2 diabetic either. While it's true that alcohol inhibits gluconeogenesis (endogenous production of glucose from other things like amino acids - this happens in the liver) to some extent, it's not the best way to lower your blood sugar. Plus it destroys your pancreas (and any remaining B cells) to boot. Not to mention the effects on blood pressure, triglycerides, cholesterol, etc.
I assume that we shall be reading stories soon about how this dog has eaten his other remaining toes, his legs, thighs, etc. Hopefully however this dog also has enough talent to become a seeing eye dog before this man ends up with terminal kidney failure.
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Perhaps he didn't want to go to the doctor, or it would cost too much to get it amputated.
So he got his wife, who is a nurse, to give home surgery a try.
Considering she isn't qualified, and that it is likely a felony to practice medicine without a license, it could have gone "wrong" (or had second thoughts), and they had to actually take him into the hospital.
Perhaps a whole crap ton of booze was the pain killer.
It goes without saying that making up an excuse that your dog ate your toe while your passed out is better than going to jail and losing your job for attempting illegal surgery.
Anyway I find that a hell of a lot more likely that his dog ate his toe while he was passed out.
. . . is there anything they can't do?
That is nothing, back in the late 1990's Mr.T ATE MY BALLS! Maybe some of you recall reading about it on the internet.
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