And no, this isn’t a fetish post (although a man with nice feet wearing flip-flops or trendy sandals will always catch my eye). As a diabetic, I have to be careful with my feet. As I get older, my circulation will get worse and the possibility that a foot injury will not heal, and will cause a toe/foot/leg to have to be amputated gets more likely. So when I returned from India, in the intervals between toilet visits, I noticed that my first toe on my right foot had a bruised toenail. In the next couple of weeks the toenail came off. I couldn’t remember anything that might have caused this. and thus was a bit concerned. It’s better now, but of course it’ll take the nail a while to grow back and there is no guarantee that it will grow back straight and smooth.
Anyway, I blamed it on tight shoes that I’d bought a while back and only wore for dressy occasions. So, I have avoided wearing them for the past couple of months and gone most places in flip-flops or my Vans. This evening my chum Steve from Electromind is having his 50th birthday party in Haywards Heath (very near Brighton on the south coast). I thought I’d wear the shoes, and duly got them out and tried them on. This time, I noticed that the right shoe was a bit odd, and when I investigated, I found that a pair of airline socks (which I often use as bedsocks) was jammed into the toe of the shoe.
I believe that when I packed for India, I put those socks in the shoes (along with other socks) in order to save space while packing. I probably never noticed that they were in the toe of the right shoe and just thought my feet were swelling or the shoe was a bit tight. The end result was that my toes were jammed up against these socks all day long and presumably becoming bruised.
Normally I wouldn’t confess this much to anyone, but this is a silliness of such massive enormity that I decided to throw caution to the winds this time and tell y’all. I hope you won’t hold it against me. I do hope that the toenail grows in correctly and that I can avoid further damage to my feet for many decades to come.
Hang on in there, Right Foot. My right big toenail’s a bit loose as well. Erk.
Oh, heck!
this reminds me I need to walk more.
And let’s hope they find a way to reverse the genetic switch that gives us the condition before long!