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.
Madam C. J. Walker, who lived from 1867 to 1919, was an early twentieth century entrepreneur, philanthropist and political activist. She was a pioneer of the modern hair care and cosmetics industries and founded the Mme. C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company in 1906. She developed a line of hair care products for African American women.