I sat on the hospital bed with my toes exposed and pointed to the ceiling. The time had come. After three years of blackened, thickened, twisted big toenails that had begun to get regular infections, they had to come off. Amputation is a true threat to those of us with Type 1 diabetes – often from unhealed wounds or ulcers of the feet and I know this all too well after my uncle Ivan had to choose to have his leg amputated after years of Type 1 diabetes and a foot sore gone wrong. My toenail infections could escalate quickly and cause exceptional harm to my feet, thus the nail…