Saving My Foot

October 31, 2025, early evening: I am NOT home from the hospital. I am at ANOTHER hospital.

Here's the story. My wonderful wife drove me to the Emergency Room at Delray Medical Center at around 2:30 a.m. on October 29, 2025. Following testing, it was determined that I require surgery to remove an occlusion (blockage) in an artery in my left thigh with a possible stent placement. The surgery was tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of October 30, 2025, but it was never meant to be, due to scheduling.

I was on an intravenous drip of a blood thinner (anticoagulant) and also an intravenous fluid drip through a separate port.

The surgery could not be performed today, either, also due to scheduling. I contacted my vascular surgeon's office this afternoon to schedule the surgery (outpatient, this time, in his office). The soonest appointment that I can get is November 12, 2025. This is way too late because I am in an emergency situation.

My podiatrist believes that I need the surgery much sooner, like yesterday, because of the five wounds in my left foot (four of my toes and my heel) due to poor circulation and diabetes. If I don't have this surgery done soon, I will be in an even more serious situation.

Basically, my podiatrist told me that if I don't have the surgery as soon as possible, I could risk amputation of the toes of my left foot; my left foot; even up to my left knee. He said that it might already be too late. He has already performed four surgeries on my left foot.

My vascular surgeon thinks that nothing is serious about my condition. Also, my wound-care specialist and a nursing student think my left-foot wounds aren't too bad.

My wife and I decided to pursue another hospital (Boca Raton Regional Hospital) to see if I can get the surgery done sooner than the 12th, possibly November 1 or 3. So, here we are in the Emergency Room.

Upon initial examination, the medical guy that's admitting me was expecting my foot to be worse than I explained it to him. I am expecting to meet with a vascular surgeon this evening here in the Emergency Room to see if surgery will help, or do we go directly to amputation. I will have the same or similar testing that I had at Delray Medical Center.

Also, I may need to have my right leg done some time in the future due to a similar situation, but my right foot is now woundless.