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The diabetic foot ulcer that cost Otis Dahmer one of his little toes began with what appeared to be nothing more than dry, flaking skin. Not being “much of a moisturizer guy,” Dahmer said, he didn’t give the skin much attention. He kept working on his feet, 10 or 11 hours a day, as a union electrician on an out-of-state job. He later noticed an open spot, like a sore, wasn’t healing. Dahmer, (pronounced day-mer), figured the location made it hard to heal, His feet aren’t too sensitive to pain, so he put off seeing a doctor. “I probably went three weeks, until I couldn’t walk on it anymore,” he said. ....