What I wear to garden is a whole different thing. I usually wear Birkenstock Garden Clogs which are very heavy duty and nothing can penetrate these. I don't have the regular garden clogs, but the industrial ones. Hard as a rock and thick. Sometimes, overkill if you ask me. For MY garden, anyway. But, about 20 years ago I tripped over my dog who was always under foot. White shepherd gone now.
Anyway, I tripped over him and onto a 5 tine garden cultivator. The claw thing. Went right up and through the bottom of the center of my left foot. Mark wasn't home and I was in agony so I crawled into the house and called 911. An ambulance took me to the hospital. Long story short, the bone got infected with a bacterium called, Mycobacterium abscessus and a sub species Mycobacterium chelonae. These are in the family with tuberculosis.
So great, the bone got infected and I required surgery three times and was in the hospital for 6 weeks, then at home with a PIC Line in my arm whereby I infused 12 hours a day with Vancomyacin and Primaxin for another 11 months to no avail. The wound was open. They had me scheduled for vivisection. I freaked out. Half my foot was going to be removed. I called every drug company in America and the very last one I called was Abbot Labs which was right here in my city. At the last moment the woman at the lab remembered an independent study being done at UT Tyler, (200 miles away) by a doctor in the med school. So we drove there, he looked at my foot and immediately identified those two bacterium above (which both the NIH and CDC could not identify outside saying gram positive rod). He prescribed Biaxin, which is clarithramyacin and I took that three times a day for another 18 months and my wound slowly closed over a period of two years.
So, I wear definite garden shoes which nothing can penetrate easily.
Good morning!
