SDFC Singapore Helps You Keep Your Legs

Psalmjacobs201822 Aug, 2018Business

A few months ago, I almost lost one of my legs to diabetes. Our family has a history of diabetes, and as the eldest son in our family, I had a feeling I was the most prone to this troubling and deadly illness. True enough, my feeling was correct. I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes a year ago, just a few months after I migrated here to Singapore. I was able to keep a healthy lifestyle and did lots of exercises after being diagnosed, but it wasn�t enough to prevent me from almost getting one of my legs amputated. While I was going for my morning jog along Singapore�s Marina Bay, I started having an uncomfortable feeling on the sole of my feet, and that�s when I saw the most frightening thing: an open diabetic foot wound. I�ve seen it once when my dad had it, and I knew the complications that came along with it. That�s when my friends here in Singapore quickly recommended that I go to the Singapore Diabetic Foot Centre (SDFC) to have early diabetic foot pain treatment. SDFC is a cli