Dr. Google is a freakin' genius!

[susandennis]

For many many years, I've had this thing inside my right foot. It's right in the middle just under my toes. Periodically it screams with pain - sometimes the pain lingers for a day or two. Sometimes it's gone quickly. Sometimes, it's so sharp, it almost knocks me over. Once I actually fell in the parking garage at the condo.

I went to a podiatrist who said it was because my feet were flat and I needed arch support. Arch support did not help.

I had a different problem with weird toenail growing on the other foot so I went to a sports orthopedist who gave me a medication that cleared up the toenail issue and a steroid shot that cleared up the foot pain. But the latter comes back. Another shot fixes it but then it comes back. It is time for another shot but...

The other thing the orthopedic guy gave me was a diagnosis. Morton Neuroma. Last week when my foot started acting up again, I plugged the diagnosis into Google and Dr. Google said I needed a metatarsal pad. Amazon brought me one for $5 and GAME CHANGER. This morning on the way back from the pool, my foot pain started, mildly. I put on a foot pad and after about 4 minutes, I'm totally What Pain? It's truly a miracle.

I did a lot of my Monday todos yesterday since I thought it was Monday anyway. So not a lot left for today which is fine. No baseball. Which is also fine because they played really badly yesterday. I don't want to see that again.

It's too hot to go outside which is fine cause I don't need anything outside. I need to go to the grocery store tomorrow but that's tomorrow.

Comments

[zforce]

I have often suspected I have Morton's Neuroma. I can sometimes have terrible never pain in the ball of my foot. I never really knew what I could do about it other than taking off my shoe and stretching my foot out. Now I am going to look into a metatarsal pad. In the summer when I am wearing sandals all the time and my feet can spread out a bit, it's not a big deal, but winter boots put more squeeze on my foot and it hurts often.

[adafrog]

Glad it worked.