Back on His Feet – How a Serious Diabetic Foot Wound Was Healed

Kyong Kim, DPM

By his own admission, Norbert Perez is a stubborn man. He initially rebelled against the counseling he received after a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes four years ago.

“They started giving me pills, but they weren’t working,” says Perez, 39, a forklift operator and Rahway resident. “They told me to change my eating habits, my lifestyle.

At first, I didn’t pay any attention to it. That typical man thing we do. We just go until we drop dead.”

But when a callus blistered and his foot swelled “beyond belief,” he ended up at the Center for Wound … read more