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smallest toes. I was referred to a podiatrist and after the second visit she wanted to operate to remove bone structure in my foot that was keeping the crack open. Unfortunately, I was on indigent care at the time and it was during COVID so most of the indigent care personnel was working remotely. Despite two telephone calls from the podiatrist to the indigent care office to get the surgery approved, someone screwed up and the podiatrist didn't receive approval. About three months after my initial visit with the podiatrist I became extremely weak and eventually the skin on top of my foot turned black and the skin was flaking off like tissue paper. I developed an infection (sepsis) and they started by removing two toes. About a week later a third toe was removed and the surgeon said that another operation was necessary to amputate my leg since the infection had spread throughout my entire foot.

So the summary is that I had 103 degree fever, sepsis, and three operations during a 15 day period. Additionally, my brother is incapable of most of the administrative tasks of his job (faxing, emails, etc.) so I was being pressured to get out of the hospital by him. It took my six days of constant work whenever he wasn't using his laptop to catch up on what I missed while I was in the hospital.