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.
Walker herself moved to New York in 1916, leaving the day-to-day operations of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company in Indianapolis to Ransom and Alice Kelly, her factory forelady and a former school teacher. She continued to oversee the business and to work in the New York office.