I've had surgery on 7 of my toes...hammertoes...and I had one bunion taken care of...I have the ugliest toes in the world...but it's my own fault for putting my big wide feet into narrow high heels most of my life. I guess you can call me old, cause it's flats and flip flops now. The heck with "What Not to Wear"!
I wish I had learned when I was younger, I used to squeeze my size 9 feet into an 8 1/2, half a size, like it really mattered...
I have very wide feet as well and have always done the same thing. My feet have suffered terribly...I had a corn removed years ago because of the same thing....ohhhh this is getting graphic!
You need to move to Hawaii...its flip flops all the way and for a real spanky look...some strapy sandals!
You need to move to Hawaii...its flip flops all the way and for a real spanky look...some strapy sandals!
My mother used to tell the shoe salesman "just forget the shoes, give us the box!"
and I wonder why I have a complex about my feet.
Hammertoes are when you have corns on both sides of the toe bone...it's bone spurs, more or less. I have one toe that was done on both sides and it has no bone on the second joint...I call it my floppy toe!
well enough of the nasty sharing, I'm ready for bed.
Have a good night KeeKee!
and I wonder why I have a complex about my feet.
Hammertoes are when you have corns on both sides of the toe bone...it's bone spurs, more or less. I have one toe that was done on both sides and it has no bone on the second joint...I call it my floppy toe!
well enough of the nasty sharing, I'm ready for bed.
Have a good night KeeKee!
OMG...okay...I don't usually admit this but.....I had six toes when I was born. On my right foot. Now in some cultures this is reason to celebrate for days and nights on end. Its considered extremely good luck! Yeah well mine was hacked off within hours of being born....not my fault....I didn't ask for it...LOL
It has been an issue for me my entire life....my brother as you can guess teased me relentlessly. I had surgery on the foot ten years ago to make my toes better...that baby toe next to the phantom had corns all the time!
This is one I had surgery on....Janet it was horrible...I can't begin to imagine a corn on both sides with "bone spurs" oh my that sounds nasty1
Poor thing...like I said....protocol in Hawaii...flips flops all year round! Why do you think I moved here!! LOL
It has been an issue for me my entire life....my brother as you can guess teased me relentlessly. I had surgery on the foot ten years ago to make my toes better...that baby toe next to the phantom had corns all the time!
This is one I had surgery on....Janet it was horrible...I can't begin to imagine a corn on both sides with "bone spurs" oh my that sounds nasty1
Poor thing...like I said....protocol in Hawaii...flips flops all year round! Why do you think I moved here!! LOL
well since we are on the subject of toes, feet, bunions and bone spurs....
i have to reply and say i hear ya! since we are getting so graphic and since i have worn a cast twice in my life, you are going to have a field day peeling off all the dry skin that you body is shedding! i guess that is how our skin must react after not having any air or light on it. you will feel like a snake getting new skin!
i would be careful kee kee if you do remove the cast, it DEFINATELY will need some support such as a walking boot. that is how my fractures were treated, some kind of support after the cast was removed, they take a saw like they use at an autopsy to cut the skull bone ( sorry so graphic) and saw the cast, you would swear they were gonna cut you leg off along with it!
exfoliate is definately your word for the week! loofah!, lotion! but be gentle as you rub this dead skin off that you dont irritate your newborn skin underneath! ok?
i was just diagnosed with a heel spur, ouchey ouch! back in the day i would be like, yeah!!! perfect excuse to get some vicodin! this time around i did try to do what a person whos not an addict would do, take an anti inflammatory for which i am proud to say i didnt take, it was called ketaprophen and i did not like what the print out from the pharmacy stated: can cause stroke or heart attack! oh bring it on baby, just what i want!!!! i can't understand these side effect warnings they give on meds, example: you get a script for say a problem with headaches, then the side effect will warn, can cause headaches!!???!!1?? anyway , i didnt take anything for pain, i toughed it out and use the custom made orthotics the podiatrist fitted me for. (your learning julie)
bunion surgery.........might i add i had the surgery three times!! the most painful thing is to have an operation you have to walk on!! that is how i slipped into full blown addiction, the ortho doctor who prescribed vicodin like it was candy!! ladies take my advice, dont try to squish your feet into those pointy shoes that stacy wears on 'what not to wear' i hear ya janet! our foot shape is some what rectangular and not natural to put them into a triangular toe box, our toes should be in a square toe box for those little piggies to move around, i know i know, only the sexy shoes are the culprit... my primary doctor said you dont need to have a bunion operation just get your self a nice comfortable pair of SAS shoes! i was like NEVER!!!! i am imelda marcos for petes sake!
well i enjoyed reading this thread on corns and tan flesh... just had to throw in my two cents.. jewels
oh, might i add, i know i feel like bragging, i have carpal tunnel and a defective ulnar nerve for which the doctor has suggested surgery, surgery? did i hear my favorite word??? surgery? that means pain pills!!!!! not anymore, i have taken cortisone shots and the pain has subsided even though the nerve tests reveal that sooner or later down the line surgery maybe an option as the nerve impulses are significantly slowing down, see? i think i am getting it, tyring to look at these opportunities as a way not to use!.
i have to reply and say i hear ya! since we are getting so graphic and since i have worn a cast twice in my life, you are going to have a field day peeling off all the dry skin that you body is shedding! i guess that is how our skin must react after not having any air or light on it. you will feel like a snake getting new skin!
i would be careful kee kee if you do remove the cast, it DEFINATELY will need some support such as a walking boot. that is how my fractures were treated, some kind of support after the cast was removed, they take a saw like they use at an autopsy to cut the skull bone ( sorry so graphic) and saw the cast, you would swear they were gonna cut you leg off along with it!
exfoliate is definately your word for the week! loofah!, lotion! but be gentle as you rub this dead skin off that you dont irritate your newborn skin underneath! ok?
i was just diagnosed with a heel spur, ouchey ouch! back in the day i would be like, yeah!!! perfect excuse to get some vicodin! this time around i did try to do what a person whos not an addict would do, take an anti inflammatory for which i am proud to say i didnt take, it was called ketaprophen and i did not like what the print out from the pharmacy stated: can cause stroke or heart attack! oh bring it on baby, just what i want!!!! i can't understand these side effect warnings they give on meds, example: you get a script for say a problem with headaches, then the side effect will warn, can cause headaches!!???!!1?? anyway , i didnt take anything for pain, i toughed it out and use the custom made orthotics the podiatrist fitted me for. (your learning julie)
bunion surgery.........might i add i had the surgery three times!! the most painful thing is to have an operation you have to walk on!! that is how i slipped into full blown addiction, the ortho doctor who prescribed vicodin like it was candy!! ladies take my advice, dont try to squish your feet into those pointy shoes that stacy wears on 'what not to wear' i hear ya janet! our foot shape is some what rectangular and not natural to put them into a triangular toe box, our toes should be in a square toe box for those little piggies to move around, i know i know, only the sexy shoes are the culprit... my primary doctor said you dont need to have a bunion operation just get your self a nice comfortable pair of SAS shoes! i was like NEVER!!!! i am imelda marcos for petes sake!
well i enjoyed reading this thread on corns and tan flesh... just had to throw in my two cents.. jewels
oh, might i add, i know i feel like bragging, i have carpal tunnel and a defective ulnar nerve for which the doctor has suggested surgery, surgery? did i hear my favorite word??? surgery? that means pain pills!!!!! not anymore, i have taken cortisone shots and the pain has subsided even though the nerve tests reveal that sooner or later down the line surgery maybe an option as the nerve impulses are significantly slowing down, see? i think i am getting it, tyring to look at these opportunities as a way not to use!.
Kerri,
I said to someone the other day that you're so active and impatient that you'd probably end up tearing that cast off yourself. I thought I was joking. LMAO.
If your foot is hurting, you'd better go to the clinic this weekend and the cast fixed or replaced.
Love,
Gina
I said to someone the other day that you're so active and impatient that you'd probably end up tearing that cast off yourself. I thought I was joking. LMAO.
If your foot is hurting, you'd better go to the clinic this weekend and the cast fixed or replaced.
Love,
Gina
KeeKee....did you go? How's your foot?
Its off!
I took Kearra to Movie Night at her school, its alot of fun! They play the movie under the stars and the kids get all wired up on "coke floats" and pizza. Its a real treat for them.
A friend of mine was there with her hubby and he is a wood finisher! He has a "diamond saw" really thin small blade....my husband was losing his mind, he was so upset at me...he wanted me to go to the Emergency to get it off....uh NO. Besides Kearra would have missed her movie!
I would premise this with a "dont do this at home folks". I realized how stupid it was by the time we were almost done. That cast did not come off very easy! It was very thick at the ankle and we sawed (sounds crazy) through the fiberglass to the cotton. We then went home because my friends only had kid scissors and they weren't cutting through the cotton.
My husband ended up cutting the cotton and prying it off...he is really strong...no ordinary man could have done this and I was terrified of the jolt. It really was a family affair Kearra was standing by with baited breath....I was holding mine.
It was off! It was shaking uncontrollably!! I was so happy yet terrified! Its a good thing that I took it off because all that scratching with the chopsticks....um...left a little damage...a big scratch that was open and sore! Yikes....
After that...it was pure heaven...Kearra took one sink in my bathroom and I took the other and we did our feet and legs with this amazing strawberry salt scrub and warm wonderful water! It was almost a religious experience. I put some amazing baby lotion and polysporin wrapped it in a tensor bandage and slept like a baby!
Now to reality...hubby is going to go to the hospital to see if they will give him a boot. It is still swollen if you can believe it, so it may need a little more support than a tensor bandage. I was slated to get the cast off this Thursday anyway!
My Doc is going to be so pissed!
You guys are the best! You have been with me through the hard times and the good times with this nasty situation!
Jewels, I can't believe that you have gone through all of that...omg..I couldn't imagine. You are so strong!
I took Kearra to Movie Night at her school, its alot of fun! They play the movie under the stars and the kids get all wired up on "coke floats" and pizza. Its a real treat for them.
A friend of mine was there with her hubby and he is a wood finisher! He has a "diamond saw" really thin small blade....my husband was losing his mind, he was so upset at me...he wanted me to go to the Emergency to get it off....uh NO. Besides Kearra would have missed her movie!
I would premise this with a "dont do this at home folks". I realized how stupid it was by the time we were almost done. That cast did not come off very easy! It was very thick at the ankle and we sawed (sounds crazy) through the fiberglass to the cotton. We then went home because my friends only had kid scissors and they weren't cutting through the cotton.
My husband ended up cutting the cotton and prying it off...he is really strong...no ordinary man could have done this and I was terrified of the jolt. It really was a family affair Kearra was standing by with baited breath....I was holding mine.
It was off! It was shaking uncontrollably!! I was so happy yet terrified! Its a good thing that I took it off because all that scratching with the chopsticks....um...left a little damage...a big scratch that was open and sore! Yikes....
After that...it was pure heaven...Kearra took one sink in my bathroom and I took the other and we did our feet and legs with this amazing strawberry salt scrub and warm wonderful water! It was almost a religious experience. I put some amazing baby lotion and polysporin wrapped it in a tensor bandage and slept like a baby!
Now to reality...hubby is going to go to the hospital to see if they will give him a boot. It is still swollen if you can believe it, so it may need a little more support than a tensor bandage. I was slated to get the cast off this Thursday anyway!
My Doc is going to be so pissed!
You guys are the best! You have been with me through the hard times and the good times with this nasty situation!
Jewels, I can't believe that you have gone through all of that...omg..I couldn't imagine. You are so strong!
ok...i've been thinking of an excuse to share this since it just happened a sec ago, but since i see 'feet' on the above messages...i just went to the kitchen to get coffee and stepped on something super sharp. I said 'oww' outloud and looked down and it was a huge sliver of glass from last night i had broken a glass...
my feet are so damn thick on the bottom that it didn't even puncture my skin. lol
my feet are so damn thick on the bottom that it didn't even puncture my skin. lol
Oh great! Youch...anything to do with leg/foot injury...the hair literally stands up on end!
You better get that checked....might need stitches...how fun will that be...on the bottom of your foot!
Poor thing. I can lend you a cast if you need one...lol...just kidding. At the very least wash it out real good....polysporin and a big ole bandage!
You better get that checked....might need stitches...how fun will that be...on the bottom of your foot!
Poor thing. I can lend you a cast if you need one...lol...just kidding. At the very least wash it out real good....polysporin and a big ole bandage!
