Today (November 8, 2026) is the first anniversary of my surgery to have the third and fourth toes of my left foot amputated due to gangrene caused by a blocked artery.
PHOTO: my partially bandaged left foot on November 12, 2025 ... A nurse was in the process of a daily bandage change. (I decided NOT to show you my bare foot.)
Four days earlier (November 4, 2026) was the first anniversary of my six-hour-long artery-bypass surgery, when I had a three-foot-long vein in my right leg removed, reversed, and inserted within my left leg.
Recent Surgeries (9):
1. March 2022: open-heart surgery
2. May 2022: 1st chest surgery: loose sternal plates removed; staph infection; chest left open for one week
3. May 2022: 2nd chest surgery: closed chest with seven sutures
4. September 2023: 1st spine surgery: removal of abscess in infected disk
5. October 2023: 2nd spine surgery: placement of titanium metal rods to hold my spine together due to a bone infection
6. April 2024: right ankle surgery: 2 fractures
7. November 2025: artery-bypass surgery: removal of vein within my right leg and inserted within my left leg
8. November 2025: left foot surgery: 3rd and 4th toes of my left foot amputated due to artery blockage
9. April 2026: left leg: angioplasty of main vein, related to artery-bypass
From husband Bill, Nov. 8, 2026
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