Feets getting better by the day

[cjsmith]

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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Re: Wide shoes locally?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

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*!

Re: Wide shoes locally?

[rampling.livejournal.com]

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

Re: Wide shoes locally?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

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.

[rampling.livejournal.com]

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*