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By CentraState Health|2024-05-10T08:42:20-04:00July 15th, 2019|Categories: Patient Stories, Women’s Health|Tags: Diabetes, Patient Stories, Wound Treatment|
As someone with diabetes, Theresa Falcicchio knew to track her blood sugar, take her medication, and check her feet for sores. However, it didn’t take long for a seemingly minor blister to snowball into a serious condition that threatened to take her leg. On a warm fall day at [...]
By CentraState Health|2024-05-10T08:42:48-04:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Health A-Z, Patient Stories|Tags: Diabetes, Patient Stories, Surgery, Wound Treatment|
Though Jersey City native Thomas Ryan, 58, had been living with diabetes for 30 years, he was faced with yet another health-related obstacle when he had to undergo amputation of four of the toes on his left foot at a hospital in Hoboken. A common side effect of diabetes, poor [...]