Pending Surgery

Evening, October 29, 2025: Hello from Delray Medical Center, my home away from home (as is Boca Raton Regional Hospital).

My wonderful wife drove me to Delray Medical Center's Emergency Room around 2:30 a.m. I had severe, crushing pain in my left foot and left ankle; pain in my right foot; and painful muscle cramps in both of my thighs, mostly the left one. I have been dealing with this for about two weeks. The pain became unbearable, so I needed to do something about it. Actually, I have been dealing with Peripheral Neuropathy in both of my feet in the form of numbness and pain for many years, but this is a different situation.

While here today, after a syringe dose of intravenous anti-nausea medication in preparation for a syringe dose of nausea-causing morphine, and also later, a syringe of a stronger pain medication to help me get through a CTA scan (from my belly to my toes) due to back pain from recent surgeries, the doctors determined that I have an occlusion (blockage) in an artery in my left thigh. I had already know this from a few years ago, when it did NOT require further action at that time. It obviously needs action now.

Here at the hospital, I continue to receive Heparin (anti-blood coagulant) via intravenous infusion through a needle in the back of my right hand. I also have an intravenous port in my left forearm that was used to accommodate infusion of the contrast solution for the CTA scan.

I am scheduled for some time tomorrow to have a surgical procedure performed to have the artery cleared and a stent installed.

As for this evening, I received another morphine syringe through my intravenous port, with the same anti-nausea medication administered, this time after, to help me get through the night.

I received an insulin injection in my left arm, as I usually inject daily into my belly at home. I will soon receive my usual nebulizer respiratory treatment, a stronger version than I self-administer at home.

It seems as if, in recent years, I am living much of my life in hospitals and in a physical rehabilitation facility:

Recent Surgeries:

2022: quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery, including removal of a vein within my left thigh; plus two related chest surgeries

2023: two spinal surgeries

2024: right-ankle surgery

... and now, 2025: left-leg surgery 

So, it goes. Be well.