It will heal faster. When the young man complies, there is an obvious blank space beneath the fresh bandages. I m diabetic, he explains laconically. I got gangrene in my big toe. They had to take it off.
Stone tells about the guy in a wheelchair who stayed at the shelter for a couple of nights.
He was 70 years old. We carried him down the stairs. Without proper wheelchair access to the gym, the Metropolitan Shelter should not be accepting such people, but it was hard to turn him away. Another man comes in and immediately sits down to chat with McLeod. He apologizes for being late, and launches into a confusing monologue about waiting for his medication at nearby St. Michael s Hospital.