My left foot. I'm beginning to think that that book and the movie they made from it should have been about me. A couple of years I developed a chronic pain in my left foot. I went to a doctor in Fayetteville whose nurse (never saw the doctor) diagnosed me with a condition called 'Morton's Neuroma.' This is a condition where the tendons in your foot get wrapped up with the nerves running alongside them. This causes swelling and pain in the foot.
At the time, the nurse gave me a shot of cortisone and told me to buy a pad for the ball of my foot. The cortisone did little but the little pads were amazing. The pain and swelling disappeared almost immediately. After awhile, I found that if I could get shoes that had a high arch support and padding for the feet, like a good athletic shoe, that I could avoid all of this swelling and pain.
Anyway, two days ago I began to have swelling and pain again in my left foot. It felt like my foot was broken. After a day of walking and what-not, the left foot swelled up to such a great degree that I didn't feel like walking anywhere. Going up stairs wasn't any fun either.
For the last two days I have been hobbling around everywhere. Yesterday, every place I stopped to step up to the courthouse steps caused more pain and swelling. Last night, I got an ice pack out and put it on my foot. I found that the ice relieved the pain and swelling so long as I wasn't walking on it.
This morning, my left foot felt almost perfect. But as I walked on it, the pain and swelling came back. Now I am wearing tennis shoes for the support and icing my foot on the floor of my office. So far, I have spoken with two clients and avoided having to get up to speak with them anywhere other than at my desk. That was a little bit embarrassing.
Well, we will just have to persevere.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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