I owe my old feet a sincere apology. First, they got beat up from years of ballet classes, where I learned to dance on pointe (on the tips of my toes). In those youthful days, my blisters, bunions and bruises were a badge of honor, suffering for the art and all that.
In my adult years, I subjected my feet to tortuous, but great looking high heels. When I began hiking on a regular basis, my feet served me through miles and miles of terrain.
Finally in my late sixties, the ballet and high heel abuse caught up with me and I had a neuroma, surgery with quite a bit of scar tissue removed from one foot. What no one tells you about that procedure is that your pain will be instantly gone, but a cut nerve will cause your toes to curl.
My feet are now gnarled boney platforms that have never let me down, in spite of abuses. I've become familiar with value of regular pedicures, replete with foot massage; toe spreaders, because they help get blood into the area where nerves have been cut from the neuroma surgery; foot stretches; and at last, wide boxed hiking and athletic shoes (I no longer wear high heels) My feet and I have had a good, long run, and I'd like to take this moment to publicly apologize to them for not taking better care earlier in life. And I thank my feet for carrying me onward.
Thanks for a fun, informative piece, Dee. Thanks for the opportunity to tell you and the world that now, I really do love and appreciate my peds!
Foot issues drive aging because as soon as we stop walking we age faster so you're right Dee, we must pay attention to our piggies. Folks think a pedicure is a luxury but that's not always the case because even painful cracks and callouses in our heels can spur us towards aging. This is a great message to help our well-being.
A fine piece, and nice change of pace at that. Bravo. I suffered from gout for years and it easily is the most painful injury ever survived. Allopurinol for a month lessens it; and when I cut back massively on alcohol consumption, it seems to have hibernated. I get the early light tingling now amd then but can drink water and adjust diet before it gets crippling.
My question is, why does darn pinky toe get "stubbed" so much -- caught on something while passing by and smashed or pulled away hard from other toes? And why does it have to hurt so bad? F@#%!! 😂
Thanks T. The gout is a thing of the past thankfully in my post-drinking years—I get a twinge now and then after a Haagen Daz binge but I can keep it from going full nuclear with water and exercise. 👍
I owe my old feet a sincere apology. First, they got beat up from years of ballet classes, where I learned to dance on pointe (on the tips of my toes). In those youthful days, my blisters, bunions and bruises were a badge of honor, suffering for the art and all that.
In my adult years, I subjected my feet to tortuous, but great looking high heels. When I began hiking on a regular basis, my feet served me through miles and miles of terrain.
Finally in my late sixties, the ballet and high heel abuse caught up with me and I had a neuroma, surgery with quite a bit of scar tissue removed from one foot. What no one tells you about that procedure is that your pain will be instantly gone, but a cut nerve will cause your toes to curl.
My feet are now gnarled boney platforms that have never let me down, in spite of abuses. I've become familiar with value of regular pedicures, replete with foot massage; toe spreaders, because they help get blood into the area where nerves have been cut from the neuroma surgery; foot stretches; and at last, wide boxed hiking and athletic shoes (I no longer wear high heels) My feet and I have had a good, long run, and I'd like to take this moment to publicly apologize to them for not taking better care earlier in life. And I thank my feet for carrying me onward.
Thanks for a fun, informative piece, Dee. Thanks for the opportunity to tell you and the world that now, I really do love and appreciate my peds!
Brilliant Stephanie. So many of us carry guilt from pedi-abuse ☺️
Thai for sharing your story. I can only imagine the ballerina toes—I took some bar classes while running track in college. Poor feetsies 🙏🙏
I could have taken this so many directions with the wonders of reflexology and the remedies you discussed—all of which has helped me too.
Foot issues drive aging because as soon as we stop walking we age faster so you're right Dee, we must pay attention to our piggies. Folks think a pedicure is a luxury but that's not always the case because even painful cracks and callouses in our heels can spur us towards aging. This is a great message to help our well-being.
It’s our platform, right Donna? Thank you for reading. You reminded me that I need to schedule my mango scrub and mani-pedi for this week ☺️☺️
A fine piece, and nice change of pace at that. Bravo. I suffered from gout for years and it easily is the most painful injury ever survived. Allopurinol for a month lessens it; and when I cut back massively on alcohol consumption, it seems to have hibernated. I get the early light tingling now amd then but can drink water and adjust diet before it gets crippling.
My question is, why does darn pinky toe get "stubbed" so much -- caught on something while passing by and smashed or pulled away hard from other toes? And why does it have to hurt so bad? F@#%!! 😂
I know, right? My favorite is when I catch it on the corner bed support when I’m walking by in the dark. Mother Tucker!!
Thanks for reading Keith 🙏
Gettin’ jiggy with our piggly wigglies! I’m down for this!
Thanks for the link to an old time fav of Michael Franks!! I even recalled all the words.
Sorry about the gout. Ouch.
Thanks T. The gout is a thing of the past thankfully in my post-drinking years—I get a twinge now and then after a Haagen Daz binge but I can keep it from going full nuclear with water and exercise. 👍
"So be nice to your toesies. You need all of them."
Thank you for pointing this out. It is so important to pay attention to every part. Especially the small ones.