Morning Pills

July 1, 2022 - These are my morning pills for this morning: 1. Diuretic; 2. Aspirin; 3. Pain; 4. Stool softener; 5. Iron; 6. Probiotic; 7. Bladder spasms; 8. Muscle relaxer.

I also sniffed a steroidal nasal spray this morning.

I receive pills in the afternoon and in the evening, which include pain/neuropathy and anti-anxiety. I also receive a steroidal inhaled powder and insulin injections.

I receive intravenous antibiotic infusions every day for six weeks for a staph infection within my chest, a blood infection, and lingering osteomyelitis (a bone infection) within my left foot. I am fairly sure that today is my last day.

Why I Am In Physical Rehab

Prior to arriving at my rehab facility on June 3, 2022, I was in the hospital since May 13, 2022, enduring and recovering from two (more) surgeries last month.

I had quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery on March 9, 2022, and two plastic reconstructive surgeries in/on my chest in May 2022. For my surgery on May 19, 2022, my plastic reconstructive surgeon removed metal sternal plates from within my chest due to an infection. For my surgery on May 25, 2022, he cleaned out the remaining infection from within my chest, and he partially closed my chest by first clipping off the tips of my ribs and then by reattaching my chest muscle flaps to my body.

My surgeon used seven spaced-out sutures to close the eight-inch-long, vertical incision in my chest initiated by my open-heart surgery in March 2022 and made worse by my two subsequent surgeries in May 2022, leaving me with seven deep holes in my chest to heal. My sutures (and wound vacuum) were removed on June 20, 2022.