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When being bitten by a dog is a good thing.
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This one's gonna make you go 'ew' and then 'cool'. And then 'ew' again.

Dog eats Rockford man's big toe, saves his life

Dogs that bite are not ordinarily lavished with praise, but Jerry Douthett's little dog Kiko is being hailed as a lifesaver.
Kiko apparently sensed an infection festering in his master's right big toe -- and chewed most of it off after Douthett passed out in a drunken stupor.
A trip to the hospital confirmed Douthett's digit required amputation, and Kiko is being heralded by his owner for helping him realize he has been suffering from Type 2 diabetes. Douthett had a dangerously high blood-sugar level of 560 when admitted -- many times the recommended 80 to 120.
"Jerry had had all these Margaritas, so I just let him sleep," said his wife, Rosee, a registered nurse. "But then I heard these screams coming from the bedroom, and he was yelling, 'My toe's gone, my toe's gone!'"
The Rockford man's strange odyssey began several months ago when he started picking at what he thought was a small sliver on the bottom of his toe. He used a knife to cut skin away from the affected area, but it worsened, swelling so much he had to eschew shoes and resort to loose-fitting sandals.
"I was hiding it from people, Rosee included," said Douthett, 48, who is a musician and a well-known wheeler-dealer in Rockford, where he was born and raised.
"It smelled, and I look back now and realize every time we'd visit someone with a dog, their dog would be sniffing all over my foot."


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Diabetes is nothing to trifle with...I don't look forward to the day when they start whittling on my lower extrenities...Maybe my two puppies will tell me when the time is close...worry.gif...Ben

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Well, if you make a habit of drunken stupors then I'm sure it's only a matter of time, hopefully though you take better care of yourself & will manage to avoid the butchers knife.

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