So, I think I got a podiatrist appointment at the exact moment that I needed it! I didn’t even know that I needed it!
My Mom and I figured it out. I had been wearing tennis shoes from a running store since about 2020. I would wear athletic socks when I wore them. Those same socks do not work out when I’m wearing my current shoes my ‘tap shoes.’ I am wearing those ‘tap shoes’ now because my feet are sick.
That is the reason why my toes hurt so badly the other morning! I was wearing Sean‘s thin dress socks that he had from high school and because they were not thick enough, my toes started to attack me because my nerves were going insane!!!
So, this is what we have to do now. When my Mom puts me into my bed, I have to wear the dress socks because I have to wear my shoes to transfer. When I am going to sleep, I already have my compression socks off.
But then when I get into bed, she has to change my socks because I need that thicker sock to protect the nerves in my toes. We do the inverse in the morning! She has to take my thick socks off and put my thin socks on before she puts my shoes on. And lastly, once I am seated in my wheelchair in my living room, and have taken my morning vitamins, she puts my legs up to keep my heels up and notnot resting on anything. That’s still a thing from my pressure sores from ‘22. It will be that way for the rest of my life.
With these extra steps with my socks, Itold my Mom that I feel like I am in Mr. Rogers neighborhood!