4th Anniversary: Heart Surgery

I created and uploaded onto my YouTube channel a video celebrating the fourth anniversary of my Quadruple Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery !!!

4th Anniversary: Open-Heart Surgery (March 9, 2026)

https://youtu.be/T1LdS3LPAt8?si=xLHyGgnhYMC3oamg

Today (March 9, 2026) marks the fourth anniversary of my Quadruple Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery !!! The photo taken by my wife in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit on March 10, 2022, shows my state of affairs the day AFTER my surgery.

In the photo, I am breathing supplemental oxygen after using a ventilator tube stuck down my throat. I have a catheter (needle) stuck in a vein in my neck with an apparatus attached. I am being monitored with many electrodes stuck on my upper body. I have two electrodes attached directly onto my heart with the wires sticking out of my chest.

This was the first of eight surgeries that I endured between March 2022 and November 2025:

*March 2022: quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery ... removal of a vein in my left thigh to be used in my open-heart surgery; broken sternum (breastbone)
*May 2022: first chest surgery to remove loose screws/sternal plate holding my broken breastbone together, and to clean out a staph infection within my chest
*May 2022: second chest surgery to close a 14-inch-long incision in my chest after it remained open for about a week.
*September 2023: first spine surgery to remove an abscess within an infected disk
*October 2023: second spine surgery to affix titanium metal rods to my "collapsing" spine due to a bone infection
*April 2024: right ankle surgery due to two fractures and a bone infection
*November 4, 2025: artery bypass surgery ...  three-fo-long blockage in the main artery in my left leg ... three-foot-long vein in my right leg removed and inserted within my left leg
*November 8, 2025: amputation of the third and fourth toes of my left foot due to my artery blockage. My toes were black. My left heel is still black.

I haven't been able to walk without support from a walker since my heart surgery. I am still receiving wound care at home for my left foot. I engaged in physical therapy and occupational therapy at facilities and at home, but I am now on my own.