Well, my feet still hurt but I wanted to write about this before I forget. As if I could forget any of this?! I was thinking to write about our second to last stop in our three day van excursion. It was supposed to be the first day but Brian gave us the wrong directions so that day was a bust!
That’s right, I am going to talk about my compression socks! I am a little bit disappointed that they were ordered on Wednesday afternoon and they still have not arrived to my house! But let me splain ya my compression sock journey does far! In this process, I am going to have to share embarrassing pictures of myself but I’m OK with that.
I definitely need to get my medical records so I can get the dates straight but I remember that I tore my left hamstring and was prescribed compression socks because my leg swelled up tremendously! The tech who measured me told me that he had to measure my thigh and I agreed but told him not to tell me what the results were and we both laughed because we saw how swollen my leg was!:
Retrospectively, I know that my socks were a size 3 back then to accommodate my very swollen Say because of my torn hamstring
I just had to wear a compression sock on my left leg to get the swelling down and myMom put them on. She has always made it look easy but I guess it’s not very easy at all! I think I took this picture a couple of days after I started wearing them:
So, my hamstring got better but my ankles started to swell and then it was decided that I needed to wear compression socks all of the time:
My Mom and I have talked about this and in the beginning of me starting to wear them. I would wear them for a few days and take a couple days off before putting them back on. I still had enough blood flow but that wasn’t a problem. This is no longer the case! I actually had to switch to a size down from size 3 to a size 2 in August 2021. Because I did not want to feel like an old lady, I opted to purchase the black ones as if that makes any difference.
I would say in the past six months, my compression socks have felt strange like they were too loose. I knew that it was time for new socks because laying in bed at night my legs would scream with a tingling sensation! So, on Wednesday I got fitted.
The woman measured my ankle and my thigh and both of my legs and she was writing down a bunch of things as she was measuring and then when she was finished, while my mom still was holding my leg, I asked her what size. She looked at her paperwork and then at me and said, “One.”
When I heard her say that, my mind drifted back to high school and a song that was my boyfriend’s favorite song! So, of course I had to learn the words! When she said one, without even thinking I just said, “For this sun. Step into millennium.”
I have so many things to say regarding our three day van excursion but I’m choosing to reference a methodman song?! Well, here it is:
