Newly Placed Infusaport Care & Instructions. Do not drink alcohol, drive a car, or operate machinery for 24 hours. Take your regular medicines as usual. Dressing changes/wound care: Remove the dressing in 48 hours. The steri-strips underneath the dressing will remain intact and should fall off in about 2-3. weeks.
Madam Walker died on May 25, 1919 at 51 years old of kidney failure and other complications due to hypertension at Villa Lewaro, her Irvington-on-Hudson, New York estate. She was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. For an HGTV excellent video about Villa Lewaro, click here.
At this point she met Charles Joseph C.J. Walker, a newspaperman with an innate ability for marketing. She married Walker on January 4, 1906 and the couple set up the Madam CJ Walker Manufacturing Company and began placing advertisements in Black newspapers throughout the United States. Although they proved a successful team, they disagreed as to how much the company should grow.