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I finished my wound vac therapy on Friday. Thank heavens. If you’ve never worked with a wound vac before, it’s a device that applies suction over your open wound and helps the tissue and muscles heal from the inside out. Once healing commences, then the patient can move to a different treatment. During the wound…

Regular followers of my blog know that I went through a serious health crisis. It involved a vascular bypass in my leg and the removing of an ulcerative and infected abscess in my left foot. For the past two weeks, I’ve been using a wound vac to suck out any of the remaining post-surgery toxins…

So I’m home right now after two recent surgeries. The next step – figuratively speaking – on my recovery is to close up a massive wound on the outside of my left foot. This wound still exists after various debridements and bone removals and infection cleanouts. And now comes the latest in healing … a…

As I continue my recovery from surgery, I have to take into consideration the fundamental need to take a decent shower. But because I can’t really put too much weight on my foot right now – and because I still have stitches and sutures that require my leg to stay dry – showering has been…

Update on my hospital situation.  If all goes well today … I should be on my way home later today. But this doesn’t mean I’m back in the pink yet. Because of the infection in my left foot that ended up spurring all this other medical crap … I underwent a debridement of damaged and…

Background. I’m still in the hospital, after undergoing a vascular bypass on my left leg. And suffice it to say … this blog post almost stopped its existence. Essentially because the blogger himself almost stopped existing. On Thursday, I went into surgery. The surgery took over 5 1/2 hours, during which time the doctors tried to find a…

An NPO is a directive that you’re going to have surgery today, and because of that, you are not allowed any food or liquids. See, food in the tummy during surgery could cause complications. Which is why I’m sitting here in the hospital bed … waiting and hoping for some news today. Last Tuesday, I was…

I’m here at the hospital. They’ve already taken enough blood from me to start a Dracula film study. I’m just waiting for information on the surgeries, which may take place today or tomorrow. And if you think that’s nerve-wracking in itself … You should have gone through what I did yesterday. I was told that I would…

A couple of months ago, I suffered a diabetic abscess on one of my toes that required a partial amputation. I thought that was the end of it. It wasn’t. A second diabetic abscess developed on the side of my left foot. And through various surgeries and debridement – it isn’t going away. The culprit? I may not be…

I only noticed the problem on Sunday. By Thursday … I was in the hospital. I shall explain. Last Sunday evening, as I was taking off my shoes and socks, I noticed what appeared to be a broken blister on my big toe. The bottom of the toe had what appeared to be a smelly…