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hip_hooraySo. Went out of the house again today, and not for PT. Went to the bank and the shoe store next to it. Such mightiness! Daniel drove, and we brought the walker and the quad-cane both.
Note to self: all your favorite long skirts get caught in the wheels of the walker. Wear other things.
Query to self: do I have other things?
(I like long skirts, because they are practical for work: if I drop a bead, it falls into the lap of the skirt and I don't have to scramble around looking for it. My skirt is my default bench pan.)
Went to shoe store. Much stuff on sale. Alas, the thing we needed was not there. I need a shoe that has soles the orthotist can build up on one of them, either by gluing onto the bottom, or by splitting the sole and putting a rise in there and then gluing the split part back on. The orthotist, whom I saw yesterday, told me Doc Martens don't work, what with the oil-based sole. Otherwise they'd be fine choices. What we found today is that there are very few leather-soled shoes around, and also that most shoes are silly or ugly or just plain dangerous, and not in a good way. Or boring.
However, I am not defeated. I plan to do a little net research to find the message boards where leg length discrepancy folks discuss which brands of shoes do indeed work for building up, and then I will find out who in town carries those shoes. So there. Mighty, I tell you.
And now I am going to collapse for a while, because ow. Serious ow. But with any luck I will revive in a while and try to upload the photographs for New Shinies. Yep, I've been working.
Note to self: all your favorite long skirts get caught in the wheels of the walker. Wear other things.
Query to self: do I have other things?
(I like long skirts, because they are practical for work: if I drop a bead, it falls into the lap of the skirt and I don't have to scramble around looking for it. My skirt is my default bench pan.)
Went to shoe store. Much stuff on sale. Alas, the thing we needed was not there. I need a shoe that has soles the orthotist can build up on one of them, either by gluing onto the bottom, or by splitting the sole and putting a rise in there and then gluing the split part back on. The orthotist, whom I saw yesterday, told me Doc Martens don't work, what with the oil-based sole. Otherwise they'd be fine choices. What we found today is that there are very few leather-soled shoes around, and also that most shoes are silly or ugly or just plain dangerous, and not in a good way. Or boring.
However, I am not defeated. I plan to do a little net research to find the message boards where leg length discrepancy folks discuss which brands of shoes do indeed work for building up, and then I will find out who in town carries those shoes. So there. Mighty, I tell you.
And now I am going to collapse for a while, because ow. Serious ow. But with any luck I will revive in a while and try to upload the photographs for New Shinies. Yep, I've been working.
