New shoes, PT, new life

Posted on March 2, 2010 by sorellaaglio

I got these new shoes.They’re danskos.

They have 2 inch heels and make me very tall.

They are very comfortable. They have arch support.

Meanwhile, I went to the foot doc today, and we did transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation which is a fancy way of saying they put an electric current through both of my feet for a while. Then, they did ultra sound on my feet, as well, to stimulate blood flow. Then I was wrapped up so I have arch support for 2-3 days, and I have excellent red and blue taping jobs. My feet feel better already, and I am hoping this will help my knees, calves, and ankles chill and go back to normal. We’ll see. Wish me luck!

A unexpected discovery!

Posted on March 1, 2010 by sorellaaglio

On Thursday, as I mentioned, I went to the foot doctor to get checked out and see what was up with my feet. My doc suggested Dansko clogs, and so Friday I decided to order some. Liz and I were talking about sizing them, and how I needed wide ones, and so I went online to find out how to size my feet properly. We were measuring and came to an interesting discovery — that I am, or may be, in fact an 8.5 W, not a 10! Which is just excellent.

Liz and I have the same length feet (we were considered after we measured that the online chart was wrong) but mine are about 4 inches. Which, apparently, is giant.

These are my giantly wide feet. (See above.)

This is how we sized my feet.

Also this.

The Dansko’s come today. I’ll let you know how that goes. Do you think that my feet are actually that small? It’d be a miracle!!

Getting it together.

Posted on February 25, 2010 by sorellaaglio

So this week has been busy, per usual, and I have been slowly letting things build up around here. Not so good for the morale.

With a special guest coming this weekend, and Andrew’s birthday party Saturday, I knew I had to get some things together before the weekend. So today, I emailed my eye doctor (I’ve been having contact-issues) AND I went to the podiatrist (who told me I need to do physical therapy for my big ole flippers.) My eye doctor told me how to fix the issue, and my physical therapy — something I never knew could help — starts Tuesday. For those of you who don’t know me that well, you might not know that I have plantar faciitis — aka no arches, and thus stretching of my plantar fascia, or one of the tendons in my foot.

Basically, this means that it’s painful for me to walk around, stand, and basically do anything involving my feet. Read: they basically hurt all the time. Jeff has been bugging me to go for weeks, since I make him wrap ice packs on my feet all the time and then squirm in the icy pain that is an ice pack on your foot, and retrieve things for me once I’m wrapped up tightly and done squirming. And, while having Jeff’s service and reading trashing mags in the meantime has been nice, I figured maybe I needed a doc’s advice. So here we go onto physical therapy, some new shoes (again), and wait for it — new, full length orthotics.

My doc made me stick my foot in one of these:

And said, if we’re lucky, we’ll receive them in like 2 weeks. Lucky me. They’ll look like this:

Which is all good news, except that I am not too keen on finding flippers big enough to fit my size 10 foot into WITH a full length orthotic. Wish me luck…