Friday, December 12, 2025

My Midline Is Out !!!

YEAH !!! My midline is out of my upper right arm !!! A nurse just pulled it out.

I just finished my last bag of intravenous antibiotic for a bone infection in the big toe of my left foot. I have been receiving four bags of powerful, intravenous antibiotics every day for the past six weeks. I started receiving the infusions in the hospital and then continued here at my physical rehabilitation facility.

I have endured this six-week-long regimen many times in recent years for bone infections and skin infections in both of my feet and legs. I usually had PICC lines installed, which are much longer.

I am going home tomorrow, where I will continue physical therapy and occupational therapy, and wound care.

My two most recent surgeries are:

November 4, 2025: artery bypass surgery (3-foot-long blockage in main artery in my left leg; removal of 3-foot-long vein in my right leg to be inserted within my left leg to bypass my blocked artery)

November 8, 2025: left foot surgery (3rd and 4th toes of left foot amputated due to artery blockage)

December 12, 2025, Cascades at Delray Beach (my physical rehabilitation facility)




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