Good morning, David (@davidpn)

Your post hit home. I have idiopathic PN, and in the past two years, I've been involved as the driver in two auto accidents; in both instances, my right foot either pressed or clipped the accelerator instead of the brake. The second of these accidents was only last February when I rear-ended a city bus, thinking I was pressing the brake but instead was pressing the accelerator. Fortunately, other than a little whiplash, I was uninjured. In the aftermath of each accident, I asked myself: Did my PN cause this? As a result of an EMG, my neurologist tells me that my PN is still localized in my feet, but if I've lost sensation in my feet, it's not something I'm acutely aware of. The bottoms of both feet have what I've always thought of as "extra tough skin," resulting from years of long-distance running. Until my PN diagnosis, I'd never considered my feet as being worryingly numb, just "hardened." My PN diagnosis has me wondering …

Thanks for this topic!
Ray (@ray666)