Originally Posted by Wally Bird
Neuropathy:
Diabetic nerve damage (neuropathy) also can lessen your ability to feel pain, heat, and cold. Loss of feeling may mean that you might not feel a foot injury. Roughly half of diabetics develop neuropathy, the danger at airport checkpoints is the potential debris on the (rarely-cleaned) floor.
Gotcha. I fully appreciate neuropathy as a serious consequence and do the daily foot-check after I shower, but still walk around in my stocking-feet all the time. It just never occured to me that ALL diabetics should NEVER take off their shoes at the airport.
A wise precaution once considered ...