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Elephantiasis Overview: Home Health Assistant
ELEPHANTIASIS OVERVIEW 2
Elephantiasis Overview
As a home health assistant I came across a patient with a rare disease to which I was unaware of what it was. I had never seen anything like it before. This man was in his sixties and had lived with his parents. On my first day I had started giving him a bath. I had bathed his entire upper body and was ready to move to his lower half. He had these giant foam looking boots on. At the time I assumed it was a health reason that he had to wear them but had no idea exactly what they were for until I removed them from his feet. He sat down his dining room so could first remove these “special shoes”. I removed the left one first and couldn't believe my eyes. His feet looked very similar to those
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