Before I explain what happened yesterday with my feet, I first need to explain what was going on. Probably about seven or eight months ago, I noticed the first brown line on my shin.. *FORGIVE THE FOOT PICTURE… but I HAVE TO ‘splain ya?!:
This deeply concerned me because I thought blood clots give you lines. But it did not hurt. I saw 2 Internal Medicine doctors a couple months apart and neither one of them knew what it was. Those doctors, they were women about my age. Then, probably a few weeks after that, I saw a podiatrist and asked specifically about this. He didn’t know what it was either! I think he was a little bit younger than me.
But, I went to see a dermatologist because I was having problems with my feet. Here is the deal with my feet!:
I kind of have to explain it in a long, drawn out way but I like telling stories. This particular story, the moral is that #MSsucks!!! I am just going to give you a rough explanation about what’s happening, I wrote about it specifically for each thing that happened but it all started when I could no longer sleep in my bed!
I just slept in my chair. I was told that it’s NOT designed for sleeping but people do it. my Mom let me know that she (and my Dad) were going to purchase an adjustable bed for me. I actually had to sleep in my chair with my shoes on because it was not comfortable and it hurt my ankles. That particular action ended up costing me a month so far and another month at least because it takes so long for my body to heal!
So, I went to see a dermatologist regarding what was happening because it was so painful! I have already written about my feet pronating so much and because of that, the sides of my shoes gave me incredible blisters!:
so, I asked about treating these blisters and one on my right foot ended up being bloody. The ‘under the skin’ bloody which is gross! But while we were discussing those sores, he told me that I had ringworm.
WHAT?!!!!
When I told Sean about it, he asked me, “What are you, a seven-year-old wrestler?!” I laughed when he said that because when he was wrestling when he was seven, there was a big infestation with his wrestling team! He told me that he thinks that the cream is still in the closet. I assure you that it would not keep medicine for 13 years and that linen closet isn’t even there anymore after my renovations.
The resident explained to me that dark moist areas give you ringworm and because my compression socks and my shoes were not allowing my feet to breathe that’s what happened.
So, that’s the deal with my feet. The sores on the side of my toes are healing nicely but this whole ringworm thing is awful!!!
I haven’t felt my feet in over 20 years but this really hurts! Ringworm really is a ring. They look like quarters and have scabbed over but because my Mom washes my feet morning and night and takes my compression socks off, which are quite difficult to get off! The scabs have come off. They bleed now! That hurts even more!
The four doctors and resident I asked about that brown line on my foot had no idea what it was but Dr. Koger knew exactly what it was the moment he walked into the door! He has been a doctor since I was three years old. He told me it was rare and then said he wanted to do a little bit more research and then he will be back.
My Mom and I completed a Google search while we waited:
When he came back, he said that his research that he just conducted reaffirmed what it is and I asked him if I could put my new compression socks on with the ringworm going on in my body. He said that was okay because I have been on medication for it for so long and that because this lesion has to do with capillaries that he thought that my smaller compression socks (that I am wearing right now!) would help!.
I don’t even care if those lines disappear (I recently got a line on my left foot as well) but these smaller compression socks feel wonderful! My Mom does NOT like putting them on because they are tighter and more difficult to put on but I love them! I talked with my Mom today and she says that it will probably be another month before my feet are normal again. That’s the deal with my feet.