I try to always wear sandals or shoes that have pretty good support, but Friday I wore some new ones that felt great at first. But then they felt like spikes strapped to my feet. Couldn't do anything about it because we were super busy with the boat regatta and I had no way of leaving until after 11pm. Soooooo.....
Here's me trying to look happy during the Hot Wheels racing:
The next morning I got up and got going at the crack of dawn, and as soon as I got down on the beach to get to work I noticed my feet felt like I was walking on those spikes again. I struggled thru the day, which included running the event at five different venues and coordinating the helicopter photos. I set up the banquet.
I limped around and took ungodly amounts of ibuprofen to help manage. Luckily, I had two staff members who helped with the banquet because I was pretty much done by then. When I changed my clothes into my banquet dress and high heels, suddenly my feet felt a lot better. Not perfect, but manageable. Turns out, it was because the shape of the shoes were stretching out the tendons that were screwed up.
The banquet and awards stuff lasted a few hours, then we broke down all the equipment and loaded up. Sometime after midnight I finally sat down and I couldn't get back up. The high heel remedy had run out.
The next day, the pain was about 3 times worse. I layed around as much as I could, but it's just not logically possible to have a family, and all that, and lay down all day when you've been gone for several days. I looked up the type of pain I was having--thanks Google-- and I found the explanation. The tendons in my arch are inflamed, have been for years, and now this really bad pain is likely an irritation from arthritis or a bone spur. Wearing shoes that aren't supportive and going barefoot are ways to make it worse. When I read that, I first thought of Brandy and her mission to remain barefoot when possible. I wanna be barefoot too!!!!!!
I will be seeing the foot doctor this week, but until then I have to rest and keep the bottoms of my feet on ice. The ice apparently helps with the inflammation. It does feel better when I ice them down, waaay better than what ibuprofen does.
At least I don't have broken feet like I initially thought. I began to dread getting older. "I'm getting so old I break bones by just walking too much!!"
We'll see if the genius doctor can make things better.
