This is a true story about Pam Mitchell who is diabetic and developed an infected heel ulcer that two years of IV antibiotics could not cure. When doctors advised amputation, she learned that maggots were used in Europe to treat similar conditions. She finally persuaded a doctor to try this remedy, and ten treatments with maggots cured her foot and saved her life. An appendix carries information about maggot therapy and diabetes.

* * * Faye Landrum is a retired registered nurse and has been a freelance writer since 1969. Her work has been published in over 300 periodicals and she is the author/co-author of five books. Her Web site is www.fayeland.org.