Back from the hospital, with some alterations….<\/p>\n
So two weeks ago I noticed some signs of infection in my right foot. This is the sort of thing I am supposed to be vigilant about, so I immediately got to the doctor, who bounced me to the hospital.<\/p>\n
Last time this had happened, I got antibiotic treatments- which were hellish, even with<\/em> help. Seems that when I fell ill a couple of weeks ago, that old dormant infection flared up, deep inside my foot. They went in and took a look around, and I was offered two options- six weeks of home IV’s, or surgery. I opted for surgery, as the home IV stuff is debilitating and complicated even with<\/em> help- on my own, it would be a nightmare. Plus, I wanted this over with.<\/p>\n As it turned out, this was the correct choice. Deep in the foot, infection had gotten a deeper root than they expected. ( The word “mushy”<\/em> was used.) By exising it now, I pretty much saved my foot. I have gracefully parted with one infected bone and my little toe on my right foot- which I as of yet do not at all miss. I am home now, and looking at a short and controllable recovery, burdened only by the inconveniences of gimping. Asd an added bonus, niether of my feet have ulcers now, for the first time in a long time. My foot , if anything, looks slightly streamlined. I am considering racing stripes and a spoiler.<\/p>\n All in all, a superior trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back from the hospital, with some alterations…. So two weeks ago I noticed some signs of infection in my right foot. This is the sort of thing I am supposed to be vigilant about, so I immediately got to the doctor, who bounced me to the hospital. Last time this had happened, I got antibiotic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}