Errett B. is a highly alert 76-year-old quadriplegic fighter pilot veteran who has been wheelchair-bound since fracturing his neck in a car accident 37 years ago. Minimal shoulder muscle control is all that remained. Over the years, immobility creates increasing vulnerability to chronic wounds, especially pressure ulcers (also called PUs or bed sores).

When skin is consistently subject to unrelenting pressure, the cells gradually become dysfunctional and the skin loses the abilities to normalize them and to produce healthy new replacement cells. Unfortunately, even the most advanced and costly medical treatments are unable to do more than prevent significant worsening, at best. These nonhealing wounds are inevitably accompanied by chronic inflammation and substantial pain, and are highly vulnerable to serious—and potentially lethal infection. These realities increase exponentially as aging skin becomes thinner and more fragile. Research published this year 1,2 clearly documents the significant negative impact of PUs on both patients’ quality of daily life and their mortality.

Errett’s wound-prevention care has been stellar, which Errett owes to the superbly skilled dedication of his 48-year-old daughter Brooke. For many years, this professional nurse has brought home her extensive hands-on understanding and experience with wound prevention and care in vulnerable patients like her dad. But after several decades of immobility, Errett finally found himself overwhelmed with the inevitable. By the spring of 2025, he had been struggling with the burdens of multiple chronic wounds, 5 of them PUs (1 on the right heel, 1 on the left ankle, and 1 on each hip, 1 on his tailbone). The persistent wound in his left groin had developed 7 years earlier as the unintended consequence of an attempted soft tissue repair following a prior procedure in that area. Errett’s tailbone wound had developed the previous year, and quickly became large enough to stick a fist into. The bone there had become infected at one point, but thankfully responded to IV infusion treatment. The recently created permanent open wound on his right shin (a difficult-to-heal area in the best of circumstances, and further compromised by Errett’s debilitated legs and aging skin) was the consequence of a “minor” skin cancer surgery. Errett’s spectrum of wounds were all seen biweekly by his medical wound-care team, and Brooke maintained “meticulous wound care” at home. “I had thrown everything but the kitchen sink at my father’s wounds to try to get healing underway,” Brooke emphasizes, “but it was fruitless.”

Coping with his expanding multitude of chronic wounds gradually robbed Errett’s life of pleasure and meaning. It wasn’t just the daily 25 minutes and sometimes more—devoted to cleaning and dressing his wounds. It wasn’t just the time devoted to the frequent use of a wound vac to reduce fluid, inflammation, and possible bacterial content in the large wounds. It wasn’t just the distress from feeling that he was robbing his family caretakers of time they needed for themselves. To minimize the terrifying risk of infection, Errett stopped leaving his house except for medical appointments. “And for fear of physically exacerbating my wounds, I stayed in bed for the vast majority of my waking hours,” he emphasizes. To save his life, Erret had given up living it.

But now—with the profound gratitude, joy, and astonishment of Errett and his entire family, and the astonishment of his doctors—this has gradually become past history. Errett’s recovery of his life began when he learned of Crescel Skin Renewal Cream just over 1 year ago. At first glance, the norm-shattering healing action ascribed to Crescel seemed too good to be true. So before using it on his PUs, he and Brooke gave Crescel a 4-week trial run to see if it really works, and does no harm. They applied Crescel twice daily to the weeks-old post-surgery wound on his right shin that showed no hint of beginning to heal. Just 4 weeks later, the degree of shrinkage astonished Errett, his family, and his doctors, and enabled the first steps in restoring Errett’s quality of life. He treasured the diminishing discomfort and anxiety and sense of vulnerability, and spoke publicly of his gratitude and excitement. Brooke was preparing to add 4 of his 5 PUs to the Crescel treatment routine, eventually including his large and deep tailbone wound, and then hopefully the complex wound in his left groin as well. Now, 1 year later, Errett and Brooke want everyone to know that Crescel has lived up to its astonishing promise. His shin wound and ankle and heel PUs are fully healed. The PU on his left hip is almost fully closed. The once-expansive and deep PU on his right hip has improved so significantly that nothing larger than a Q-tip can be inserted. Errett’s threatening extensive tailbone wound, which was close to the length of a medical Q-tip and could incorporate a fist, is smaller than a dime. Brooke says that probing its now-minimal depth with a Q-tip enables her to feel the healthy matrix that is forming. His years-old large left-groin wound is at least half of its original size and depth. Brooke needs only 5 minutes to do the few minimal daily dressings that are still needed. Her plan now is to treat her father’s 2 most complex wounds exclusively with Crescel, as she has been doing with all of the others for some time. She began this recently for his tailbone wound, and is now starting this with his groin wound as well. She intensely regrets not doing this from the outset. “Because of distrust at the beginning,” she says, “how much time I’ve wasted in not using Crescel everywhere, exclusively, from the beginning!” This regret does not diminish her joy at the consequences of eliminating Errett’s massive health burden. “Crescel has given me more years with my father,” Brooke exclaims, “and given my father more quality years to his life.”

And Errett reports with deep joy that he now—at last—has his life back. “I feel so much more positive about life, and like a normal person again,” he begins. “I no longer worry about whose schedule I’m impinging on, or if my wound dressings will last a full day. I don’t have to spend time with the wound vac. I feel more substantial, and safer.

And I have returned to my normal life! The biggest change that Crescel has given me is that I get out of the house again and do things. I no longer just lie in bed or sit at home in a chair. I’m up and busy from 8 in the morning till 9 at night—and I have a level of confidence again that I can rely on.” In this past year Errett has moved back from Seminole, FL to his hometown of Terre Haute, IN. And he lists the regular activities that Crescel has restored to his life. “I attend activities at the brewery that we partly own, visit relatives in the area, entertain family and friends at our home.” And he is relishing upcoming events that he can now safely attend: the reunion of his Marine fighter squadron in Tennessee; his 55th Naval Academy reunion in Annapolis, MD; the Indy 500; traveling to the new family ranch in Sarasota, FL this fall; and celebrating July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. “I can get up and go whenever I like,” Errett says. “Crescel has been life-changing!”

Errett hopes that Crescel can quickly become available to help his fellow veterans. Brooke—with her years of professional experience in caring for chronic wounds in elderly patients—is convinced that “Crescel has the potential to transform the existing wound-care industry.” And Errett’s daughter-in-law, a regular observer of his Crescel-enabled progress, insists that “this product deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.”

Shin Wound:

Left Ankle Pressure Ulcer:

Right Heel Pressure Ulcer:

Tailbone Pressure Ulcer: