Focused on Personal Health Issues

I was in the Mercy Hospital in Redding from Friday afternoon, 9/9, until Tuesday afternoon, 9/13.  I was on strong intravenous antibiotics (Vancomycin and Zosin) to help me fight an infection in the seroma and surrounding tissue in my upper left thigh and the spreading cellulitis in my left thigh.  Early this morning, Dr. Hatter, a vascular surgeon, did surgery on the large seroma on my upper left thigh and inserted a Wound-Vac to begin Negative Pressure Wound Therapy.  I will be recovering at home for the next two weeks.  I will receive treatment from the Mercy Hospital Wound Clinic in Redding, California, and from the St. Elizabeth's Home Health Wound Care Services.  

Hopefully, my otherwise healthy constitution for a 65 year old man will enable me to make a full recovery in a reasonable period of time. I hope to return to teaching Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong on 9/24, and teaching yoga on 11/1. 

The last two and a half months have been a very challenging recovery after the surgery to remove a large non-cancerous tumor from my upper left thigh on June 28th.  I now have had three surgeries on my thigh, two to repair the seroma that formed after the first surgery.