I'm Ready To Go To Work. Career Break - - Disability 12/18-Present. I stumbled upon the "flesh-eating" bacteria around December 21, 2018. By the 22nd, I was hospitalized, and surgeries began. 42 days in the ICU. Hospitalized at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJC) in St. Louis for Fournier's Gangrene. Please don't just look at the first picture. My Fournier's was different and much worse! Further hospitalized. Sent home. Then the hard part started. In a bed for months. I needed to learn to stand and then walk again. The gigantic hole took more than a year close. It took a village of loved ones, people who became members of my team, and people I met only once, who stepped up and stepped in and saved my life.
Disability, 12/18, Present, I stumbled upon the "flesh-eating" bacteria around December 21, 2018. By the 22nd, I was hospitalized, and surgeries began. 42 days in the ICU. Hospitalized at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJC) in St. Louis for Fournier's Gangrene. Please don't just look at the first picture. My Fournier's was different and much worse! Further hospitalized. Sent home. Then the hard part started. In a bed for months. I needed to learn to stand and then walk again. The gigantic hole took more than a year close. It took a village of loved ones, people who became members of my team, and people I met only once, who stepped up and stepped in and saved my life.