Diabetic Foot Ulcer Open for 6 Years Finally Healed with New IYIA Technologies Device.

SAN DIEGO -- Imagine, if you can, walking around day after day continuously wearing a hole into the flesh of your foot and not knowing it. Imagine also going year after year being subjected to dialysis and its inherent demands of sixteen hours each week and fifty-plus pills each day. And hoping against hope that, one day, you will receive a transplant to alleviate the need for these life-strangling treatments. To round out this scenario, assume that you will never get the kidney/pancreas duo transplant until that foot wound finally goes away. You've tried every method offered up by the conventional medical community and nothing has worked, until now.

Ken Mitchell's journey with Diabetes lasted for some twenty-eight years. And, today, he can honestly say he is no longer a Diabetic. He was on the waiting list for these transplants for too many years. And, while he waited for the approval to surface, his Diabetes remained relentless, and all the years since he was fifteen and first learned about his illness took their toll. In his teens, he had to give up the sweets he'd always loved. In his 20's, he gave up the smoking. And, in his early 30's, the disease began to overtake his life and lifestyle in the form of kidney failure and a subsequent heart attack and bypass surgery that followed. In other words, Ken dealt with his illness perched between the 20th century methods that didn't work and being introduced to a 21st century method that does.

Which leads us to IYIA and their foot-wound treatment device named "O2Misly"(TM), nicknamed "Oh-Miz-lee." To the layman eye, she would probably look just like a floor-cleaning apparatus; but to a Diabetic with a foot wound, she can work small miracles. When Ken first placed his foot into her basin in October, 2005, his foot ulcer was threatening to dismantle his chances for his long-awaited transplants. At 43, he came to realize that probably this is it. This is how his life is going to be. All the years of home dialysis that no longer worked calling for outside treatments which took away the time that would have been spent on his chosen livelihood were about to be accepted as his plight. And there were the so-called tried and true methods; namely, special shoes prescribed by podiatrists to "offload" the pressure on a foot wound. And the homecare nurse who would wrap the wound twice a week for over three years and who was frustrated in the process because it never quite did any good. And, even in the early days, when Ken was implanted with an insulin device, it still offered no future to this young man. But he stayed with the treatments for the next two months and, in twelve sessions with "O'Misly," he gradually watched his foot ulcer of six years disappear. When that foot wound no longer stood between him and surgery, a few months later, he received the rare organs transplant (both kidneys and Pancreas) and was suddenly making the life plans of a non-Diabetic.

Which, once again, brings us to IYIA and its founder. An inventor's helper, Adrian Pelkus, began a small factory and A Squared Technologies, Inc. to assist inventors in realizing their dreams. From there, he began to focus on one invention in particular, "O'Misly" and created a new entity for her (technically termed an early stage biomedical device company) named IYIA. In this factory of dreams, located just north of San Diego, a biomedical hub, the prototype for this life-changing device was perfected. It incorporates some of the principles of accepted approach and adds to the mixture a new process. And this new process makes all the difference in the world. It blends together the best of three elements: oxygen, moisture and antibiotics. And, unlike the customary hyperbaric methods, for instance, which offered conventional hope but came at a price: a high price, both in dollars (averaging upwards of $6,000 per week) and risk (given that the pressure being administered was dangerous to both the patient's eyes and ears), this methodology has no significant price to pay. Not for Ken Mitchell nor over a dozen others who would have otherwise been likely amputees who are benefiting from "O'Misly," nor countless others still to come. And these countless others will, most likely, be directed there by one physician in particular who is now using "O'Misly" as common practice for his Diabetic patients. Dr. Michael Wilson, Ken's Podiatric Specialist, learned about IYIA and this foot-wound device and began referring patients to it. In fact, all of his patients have come to him because the standard methods have not worked for them. And he, in turn, refers them to IYIA. As stated by Dr. Wilson, "After six years of dealing with this foot wound through standard methods, Ken Mitchell came to me and, in forty-two days with 'O'Misly,' it was healed."

But the best news is that this wound care will be branching out to include other types of skin abnormalities, including burns, post surgical infections and even frostbite. The FDA has approved this methodology to be implemented by other means. The same principle used to heal this Diabetic's foot wound can be translated using several other modes of implementation including UV light and oxygen therapy, depending on the wound site and whatever will best increase circulation to accelerate the healing process. In other words, "O'Misly" may soon have her duties expanded to include other types of wounds. But, for now, she concentrates on patients like Ken and helping to give them the future they deserve.

Before "the transplant," as he terms it, Ken could only look at photographs from a friend of the view he would see if he were able to visit their home on the island of Maui. Because there was only one dialysis unit on the entire island and it was continually reserved, he could not take his chances and visit. Ken Mitchell considers himself very lucky that, regardless of the fact that the first half of his life was spent in the 20th century rendering him defenseless against Diabetes, the second half will be spent just like, what he calls, everybody else. When asked what his plans were for the future, he indicated that following a visit to Maui he would be starting the career he has wanted all his life, as a chef.