Shoes

OK, ladies I know I have your attention.  Guys, you might be able to relate to this too as I promise not to mention Manolo Blahnik or Jimmy Choo.  Come on boys, wake up and pay attention.  This also does not have to do with the shoe being "cute".  I'm so beyond looking at shoes for "cute". 

Let's put first things first.  Your feet should not be taken for granted.  If you didn't have them where would you be?  In a wheel chair of course and you don't want to go there.  Your feet carry you through your day from the time you step out of bed to the time you return to said cozy comfy place at night. Without your lovely feet your day would just be downright hard, weird, difficult...I could go on and on but I won't.  You get the picture. 

Remember the other day when I mentioned the bone shattering pain in my feet?  I'm sure you do as the idea of it freaked out my daughter so I'm sure it did the same to some of you.  Well, since walking became something that I truly feared (I'm not kidding, I was actually terrified to get up from a chair, out of bed, step out of the car or any other action that involved stepping with my feet.) my husband suggested that I look for shoes that were cushioned enough on the inside to at least make walking not quite so difficult.  We looked and looked and looked and looked until I really couldn't walk anymore and then I researched on the internet.  The internet is my friend because I can pre-shop and then walk in and just get what I want and leave a store.  So, anyhow, I found something online that looked like it might work and I found out where they were sold.  Much to my chagrin they did not fit my feet well.  Luckily the gentleman in the store suggested a couple of other stores that specialize in foot problems that might have something for me.  We went on our merry way and found the first store to be closed.  This turned out to be serrendipitous because the second store had lots to look at and try on. 

I tried on many shoes and as I walked around the store with one pair on I spotted something on the clearance rack that looked funky and felt squishy.  Well, funky and squishy is just up my alley.  I tried them on and WOW!!!! I could walk without feeling quite as much like my feet were shattering.  WHAT A FEELING! You think I'm being a little too over the top but I'm really not.  If you had this  pain in your feet you would feel like singing a shoe's praise too. 

Now, no shoe is perfect but if I can keep a shoe on for more than a short while without wanting to cry I'd say that's pretty good.  Now when the foot pain things subsides for a bit (as I know it will since my fibromyalgia pain tends to go on little traveling sprees around my body) I'll wear other shoes for a while.  In the meantime I'm looking at getting at least one more pair of these so I can wear them with everything.  Now I am prepared for when foot pain takes me over (or should I say runs me over). 

So now I can tell you that I am grateful for many things on this day.  My new shoes, my feet, the shoestore that had the shoes, the guy who worked in the first store for directing me to the others, the guy who actually sold me the shoes, my husband for suggesting that I get something more comfy and for looking everywhere with me, the internet for helping with the shopping, the pain being less, the long weekend for staying off my feet and all of you for being my friends and reading my rants.  Love you all.