Doctors thought it was a simple foot infection. They were so wrong.
By Sandra G. Boodman (Cameron Cottrill for The Washington Post) Melissa Curley Bogner was baffled: Why did her feet feel suddenly hot — in January? The 41-year-old management analyst for the Navy had grown accustomed to periodic bouts of neuropathy — numbness in her hands and feet — the apparent legacy of a severe allergic reaction to a drug she took in 2000 to treat a gynecological infection. But this 2015 episode was different. Along with the sensation that her feet felt unusually warm, the skin on the second toe of her right foot looked inflamed. Weeks later, she noticed a small blister. Bogner, who lives in Southern Maryland, initially shrugged it off. She figured that whatever was wrong would go away on its own. [ In looking for ‘zebra,’ doctors are stumped by toddler’s painful legs, rash and bleeding gums ] “I didn’t go to the doctor because it didn’t hurt,” she recalled. But eight months later, Bogner would learn that her foot problems we