Medical Update

I had an appointment with my podiatrist at his office yesterday (November 21, 2025). He told me that my left foot looks good and that he will remove the stitches in my left foot in ten days.

Saturday afternoon (November 8, 2025), I had two of my toes amputated on my left foot (the third and fourth) due to an artery blockage.

Also, I am scheduled to have the 96 metal staples removed from my legs at my vascular surgeon's office next Wednesday (November 26, 2025).

right leg: 70; left thigh: 16; left calf: 10

Tuesday evening (November 4, 2025), I had a six-hour-long surgery to remove a long vein within my right leg (about 3 feet long) to bypass an occluded (blocked) artery within my left leg. The blockage is three feet long. Basically, my right vein was reversed and put within my left leg.

My daily, six-week-long intravenous antibiotics regimen is finished on December 12: bone infection in the big toe of my left foot. I have done this regimen many times for bone infections and skin infections in both of my feet and legs.

In March 2022, I had a vein removed from my left leg for use in my quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery (open-heart surgery).

Recent Surgeries (8):

1. March 2022: open-heart (quadruple)
2. May 2022: 1st chest
3. May 2022: 2nd chest
4. September 2023: 1st spine
5. October 2023: 2nd spine
6. April 2024: right ankle
7. November 2025: both legs
8. November 2025: left foot

Previous Surgeries:

4 surgeries (now 5) on my left foot
nasal/sinus surgery

(tonsils, age 5, 1966)

Today: November 22, 2025, Cascades at Delray Beach (my physical rehabilitation facility)