Today marks my 3 month anniversary with my boot...THREE STINKIN' MONTHS IN THIS THING! And no, saving the treads on all of the right shoes in my closet does not make up for it! I slipped off of a flip-flop...a 1/2-inch high flip-flop...and that was the end of my right foot. My tendon has been irreversibly stretched, or so the last quack I saw told me...One ER doc, one Family Practitioner and one Podiatrist...three months and thousands of dollars...okay hundreds....and still I wear the boot....do I sound bitter? No, really, I'm not, I like wearing a TEN POUND WEIGHT around my leg! Okay, so it's not 10 lbs...it's close - at least 4 - but because it's a lighter shade of gray it looks bigger! This boot has about a 4-inch rise to it...so if I don't wear a 4-inch heel on my left foot then my "gait" gets all messed up and I hobble! I sounds like some crazed monster is walking with me....step, thud, step, thud....and people look at me and and give me their "pity stare" and I give them my "it's okay" shrug and they scurry off on their two good feet and I, well, I step, thud, step, thud....if I wear a heel on my good foot, then I've noticed people looking at me like I'm crazy...."She's got a bad leg and she's wearing heels, what an ejit!" I KNOW that's what they're thinking - heck, it's what I would think!
There is no end in sight for this unsightly boot...I fear that one day I will look down and it will have attached itself to my leg permanently! So tonight I'm going to mark my 3 month boot anniversary by watching Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot. And next week I'm going to see yet another doctor...this one claims to be a "specialist"....we'll see...
