Wide feet

[cjsmith]

I have very wide feet. When I was a child, I wanted a surgeon to remove my little toes all the way back including the metatarsal, so I could wear shoes without pain. It took me until maybe my twenties to stop wanting that surgery.

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[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

I wanted that surgery, too. I've always had wide feet.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Are you serious? Man, I thought I was the only one who made up the idea of that kind of surgery and spent decades wishing I could have it done to me. Yet the writer of the other journal where I commented earlier today -- this post being a copy of that comment -- ALSO imagined something very similar.

I wish children's shoes came in wide. (If they did when I was a child, I wish my family had been willing to look for them. If what I was wearing WAS wide, then I'll go back to my first sentence!)

I wouldn't be at all surprised if my current foot problems stem from those pinching shoes I wore for years while growing up. Bad bone placement -> pinching or abrasion of nerves -> eventual neuropathy? I'd believe it.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

I always ended up wearing the ugliest shoes in creation which came in wide, or shoes that were too long for my feet. I'm a 9D, and I'm lucky that Easy Spirit generally fits me. I'm also lucky that I've never been a shoe hound, because finding stylish shoes in wide widths that don't cost an arm and a leg is impossible.

I wonder if wide feet are an inherited trait? My mom is a B width, but her mom was a EEE. And my dad is a EE. I think my fat fingers are inherited from my dad - he once had an argument with a jeweler about enlarging a ring of mine - the jeweler didn't believe a girl (I was maybe 12) could wear a size 8 ring. My dad held out his hands to show the guy how big his fingers were.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, forget stylish. Back when I wore shoes, if I ever had to look good, I'd just have to hope everyone would ignore the half inch of space behind my Achilles tendon and the resultant clopping sound when the shoes flopped on and off my heels. I think "never been a shoe hound" is more than a lucky coincidence; it's a direct result of having wide feet.

My feet (and hands) are tiny as well as wide. I'd be about a 5 in shoe sizes if they came wide enough. (Best I could usually do was a 7 or 7.5.) I don't know how many Es because I've never found enough. :-)