{"id":393881,"date":"2026-07-10T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/393881\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:50:07","slug":"double-amputee-walks-out-of-fresno-care-facility-following-grueling-18-month-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/393881\/","title":{"rendered":"Double amputee walks out of Fresno care facility following grueling 18-month ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 For the team at Oakwood Gardens Care Center, few moments are more rewarding than watching a resident walk out of the building after a successful recovery.<\/p>\n<p>For Francisco Rivera, that milestone carried special weight.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 18 months, Rivera underwent two below-knee amputations, a medical ordeal that included near-fatal complications and several hospitalizations. <\/p>\n<p>After both surgeries, he completed rehabilitation at Oakwood Gardens Care Center, committing to what staff described as a grueling regimen as he worked to adjust to life with two prosthetic legs.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Rivera officially completed his stay and walked out of the building on his prosthetic legs after being discharged to return home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 For the team at Oakwood Gardens Care Center, few moments are more rewarding than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-393881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}