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Feets getting better by the day

Full day so far in "normal shoes". With Pat's pair and the ones I found yesterday evening (6EE, still too long and a tinch narrow but I was in a hurry), I have not had to resort to my post-op shoes once today. I did bring them to work just in case, but I haven't needed them. Yay!

I walk less well now. I was getting FAST in the post-op shoes, and switching to "normal shoes" has set me back -- my speed is back to what it was several days or a week ago. I suspect a lot of that is a get-used-to-it thing.

According to my doctor this indicates I'm ready to use a brake pedal. THANK GOODNESS, 'cause the errands to do are piling up. (F'rex, get the car smog-checked and reregistered. Tougher to do once it's lapsed... which will be the day after tomorrow.)

All sign of bruising is gone. The skin color's a teensy bit different inside the Neutral Zone, which might be simply because it's a Neutral Zone. The boundary between the area I can feel and the area I can't seems way oversensitive to me. I suspect that'll fade with time. Phantom sensations continue to occur randomly.

Next appointment Friday. I hope she takes off the tape and tells me I can quit wrapping with Coban. It's time-consuming in the morning! Plus, hey, I WANNA SEE. :-)

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So would you need like a 5 1/2-EEE?

It makes sense to me you might slow down from post-op shoes to normal shoes. You'd gotten used to one type.

I WANNA SEE.

Me, too. :-)

5 1/2 is the right length, if I recall correctly. EEE might do it, or since this one's a little pinchy and 5 1/2 is smaller than 6, EEEE could be better. Who knows?

Where do you buy your shoes? Inquiring minds attached to wide feet wanna know.

Pics Friday evening. :-)

I usually get the New Balance shoes I wear at Kohl's.

Cool. Thanks! I am going to have to see whether the New Balance store I know of will let me try on a 5 1/2 EEE or EEEE. That sounds like my best bet.

*crosses fingers* I hope you can find something comfy. :-)

Thanks!

I'll visualize a speedy recovery.

Thanks! It's going quite well so far!

Oooh, normal shoes! Yay! Even though you're slower, it's progress! But making sure they fit is more important than ever, so get out there and find some 5½'s with as many E's as you need! I know they're not easy to find -- my mother wore 5½EEE, and she always had trouble finding them. It must be even worse now that average foot sizes are larger. But even if it costs more, it's worth it to have shoes that fit right.

I can't wait to see those pics!

Definitely progress! And now that I can use a car, I have a snowball's chance of FINDING some 5.5EEE shoes. It was looking like a classic catch-22 for a while there.

I can't wait to lay eyes on my closed up, healed up feet! Woohoo!

In a pinch, you can send the money for the registration (or do it online--but I recall there's some reason why you don't want to do it that way), and then get the smog done afterwards. You won't have your tags right away, of course, but at least it would only be a fix-it ticket in the unlikely event that happened.

True enough. (Apparently it's usually only a fix-it ticket the first time anyways.) That gets me out of a late fee for the registration payment, as well.

I think I could do it online now. Whichever Smith was selling his or her Corolla has finally gone and DONE it, so the DMV no longer thinks my car isn't mine. :-)

I'm glad you're getting better! That's funny about the new shoes setting you back -- it's amazing how slowly the body adapts sometimes.

Got your card today! Squeeee!

I squeeed when I got yours! 8-)

D'you know (I don't remember whether I wrote this in the card) that I got a grand total of three get well cards, and that every one was from a LJ friend?

Great to hear about your "normal shoes" progress! My gut feeling is that it's especially important for you to find truly wide enough shoes to wear now, or you'll likely end up reaggravating the problems you already had. I hope you'll be able to find some wiiiiide shoes somewhere localish, or at least find success ordering them online.

Curiosity led me to do a little search, which turned up this cool sounding place: The Walk Shop (http://www.walkshop.com/main.asp), in Berkeley. They claim to sell pretty wide shoes (http://www.walkshop.com/questions/default.asp#wide), and claim to have "professionally trained shoe fitters with years of experience in fitting problem feet" and you could go there in person.

Yeah, OK, you could have found that yourself, but sometimes I wish I could be more helpful even though I'm so far away. So I do what I can. ;)

*hugs* *kitty-purrs* *CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE*

I think that's exactly right. I strongly suspect having too-tight shoes for my entire life is basically what caused me to grow these neuromas in the first place.

Thanks for the link! Berkeley's "local" enough that I'd have to take a day off to get there. Fortunately, this weekend I have one. (not two.) Sadly, it's Labor Day. ;-) Fortunately, I might have a day off next weekend, too. I'll see if my car passes smog. One of these years it won't, and if that's today, I'm'a gonna have to buy a car awfully darn fast...

Anyway. *hugs* back! and *kitty-purrs*! and *AIRLINE TICKETS*!

You might wanna call to see if they might be open Labor Day -- you might get lucky. And best of luck with your car smogging too. *hugs-of-luck*

Mmmm, tasty *AIRLINE TICKETS*! I'm such a happy lucky girl! :D

Smog PASSED! WOOHOOOOOOOOOOO! (The numbers even say my car is "very clean", better than the average that come into smog check stations. Phew: that means it's probably good for another year!)

And yay for airline tickets. It's wonderful that we live in a world where it's perfectly feasible to go visit someone on the opposite side of the globe. Every so often I step back and think that's just amazing.

Yaaaay for smog passing with such high marks! Excellent news!

And, yeah, between airline tickets and the internet it made it acually relatively reasonable to get to know and "date" someone on the other side of the world -- and then actually get to visit him! Ahhh, first it was the necessary help of MRI technology which saved me from tumor-induced hell, and now the wonderful assistance of globe-trotting airlines and the globe-spanning internet that enables me to pursue a lovely relationship and an exciting trip to visit! I can't help but marvel too! It's fabulous to live in such days when I can just casually say "sure, I'll come visit you in India!", and do it without huge amounts of fuss! Yaaaay! *gush,gush*

Yay, healthier feets!

Z

P.S.: Yeah, I'm back.

Welcome back!

I'm glad things seem to be going so well!

Thanks! I'm not feeling much of the original problem kind of pain when I walk, so I'm getting pretty darn hopeful.

My thumb scar is still hypersensitive a full three months after my cut. I've got feeling back above it (it took maybe 6 weeks to come back) but it's still tingly when I stroke it, like it's been "asleep." The scar itself? Ow. I rub it sometimes according to proper scar massage techniques as taught by

chaiya (who's trained) but it hurts, even, to do that. The surface is tender, and the underlying tissue is still sore. I have no idea how long that will take to fix itself.

I bet this stuff will take a looooong time, for both of us. Fortunately, I know people do adapt after neuroma surgery. They say the phantom sensations will fade over a matter of months. You're dealing with nerve regeneration, as opposed to shriveling up, and I wouldn't be surprised if that takes longer. (A LJ-friend of mine just had ulnar nerve surgery and that's what the doc said her tingling sensations were: nerve regeneration. They seem confident that it will all heal up.)

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