Sweet dreams aren’t made of these
GETTING off on the wrong foot with diabetes cost Teh Yuen Kim his right one, when what
began with a small cut on a toe ended with a surgeon cutting off his entire foot and half a
calf.
The amputation that finished Teh Yuen Kim’s days of unencumbered walking took place in
early September last year, but the underlying problem began long before that.
An Ipoh boy, Teh (53) lives and works in KL, specialising in information technology
networks. Among his 11 older siblings, he has two brothers and a sister who have type 2
diabetes mellitus (hereafter referred to simply as “diabetes”) – the incurable disease that
results from a progressive deterioration of the body’s sugar processing machinery.
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