Happy Feets

I hope I'm not jinxing myself by saying this but it seems like the feet are getting better these days.  Let me fill you in:

I've been seeing a podiatrist for pretty painful plantar fasciitis on my right foot. (Mind you, this has been going on since March, to the point of making me curl up in a ball on the couch, whimpering in self-pity). He first taped my feet, then molded them for orthotics. A couple of days later I developed a cyst on the ball of one foot and we talked about draining it. The day I went in for that, he felt around the cyst and stated he'd rather I went in for an MRI. Just to be sure. He said cysts there are uncommon and he wanted to rule out other stuff. I agreed. I mean, I'd rather have an MRI than a needle poked into the ball of my foot.

I gotta say, the MRI was fun. I'd had a stressful week at work so I got to relax and listen to some good tunes while the machine jack hammered it's way around my foot. By the time I went back to see the doc to get the results, it was clear that this bump was indeed a cyst and that it had popped on it's own. It has since filled and popped a few more times. Ugh!

I received my orthotics the same day as the MRI results, but, as luck would have it, not one pair of shoes I own fit properly with them inside. I've either broken them in so that they now rub where they never used to or the shoe is so tight it hurts just to wear it. So, I spent two hours in a shoe store trying on pair after pair with the orthotics in them and found two pairs I could wear to work that a. weren't tennis shoes and b. were semi-comfortable. Sadly, I returned both pairs the next day because when I tried going up and down stairs with them in my house it became evident that neither pair was going to work. Back to the shoe store I went where I traded both pairs for a cheap pair of "dressy" tennis shoes. Dr. Scholl's no less. They are comfortable, though.

I finally made it out to the mall a couple of days ago where I found a decent pair of Clarks at Macy's that I've been wearing for the last couple of days. Yep, I paid a small fortune for them but I think my days of Payless shoes are over.

This evening, as I sit here and type this I can tell you that, for the first time in a very long time, my feet don't hurt. I would certainly call that progress!

It's been tough breaking in the orthotics and I'm only able to wear them half a day at a time still but even that little has helped tremendously! And for that, I'm grateful. :)

I leave you with a pic of an old car we came across in Cazenovia. The junkyard we wandered through was filled with these old cars--nothing "newer." While it was a little sad to see so many great cars of the late 40s, 50s and 60s there, I'm glad they have a home...if that makes any sense at all.