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Well,well, well.
Yeharrrrrroooeyeeeee!!! Lise is here :D
I have to tell you that each time I see a daschund at the doggie beach I think of the coolio lise up in Chi town :D
Welcome back, Lise. I always enjoyed your posts. The description of your surgery, made me want to live with my bunion forever. I just don't want to take the time off!
Robyn (I changed my screen name)
Lise!!!!!! So good to "see" you! Are you doing Bike The Drive this year??
Good morning, ladies! It's good to be back.
Get this--on my first time back on the bike post-op, we had not one but FOUR separate dachshund sightings on a 7.5 mile ride. I took it as a very good omen.Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
Ah! Thanks for explaining the name change! Yes, it is truly a long haul recovery. If you work on your feet, as I do, you will need to take two months off work. I have bunions on my R foot, too, but they don't interfere with my life, and I have no plan to interfere with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crankin
Hey, Pax-formerly-known-as-Queen! I think about Bike the Drive, but don't know if I can pull it off. I suppose we could do a shorter part of it...I'll have to talk to John and be willing to play it by ear. How about you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
We're thinking about coming up but will be watching the weather forecast, the last time we rode it was in a pouring down rain storm...and once of that was enough. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
A very good omen indeed! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
Welcome back!
hey Lise, congrats on the promotion! I hope you still get to deliver babies.
(formerly mimitabby)
Mimi
I was musing,should I get rid of high heeled boots? Bunions, yikes - yes I should! thanks!:eek:
I sold shoes for a while - so many poor mangled looking bunion feet.Poor little things! Women who lived thru 50s had it the worst. The shoe manufacturers actually cut shoes to slant BEFORE the big joint, so that millions of women now have bunions.
I hear that its sometimes better to leave them, unless you cant walk. Has it helped?
We rode two years ago in a persistant drizzle. Though I seem to remember it clearing up in the end. A cold grey wet day is not great for riding anywhere, much less with the hordes on LSD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pax
I *do* still get to deliver babies. If I could just deliver babies as a day job, I'd do it. It's the nights that kill me. I'm 1/2 time administration and 1/2 time clinical. The clinical is about 1/2 time prenatal and gyne care and 1/2 time on call at the hospital. I caught two babies last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biciclista
The darned thing is, I never wore heels except for really special occasions. I'm 48, and grew up wearing Clarks and flats and gym shoes. Never even flip flops. I've just got genetically odd feet. Really narrow heels and really wide forefeet. The podiatrist actually said, "Whoa! Where did you get those feet?" when she first saw me. I replied that they were courtesy of my PARENTS. My left foot had gotten so bad that I had pain no matter what I did. Not only in my feet, but my legs and hips, too. I couldn't run, bike, or really even walk without pain and numbness. It's not all better yet, but it looks a lot more normal, and I'm expecting a much better quality of foot life.Quote:
Originally Posted by cylegoddess
The right foot has bunions, too, but they don't bother me, and I have no intention of going through this again unless it's really necessary.
My mom was in her 20's in the mid 50's, she wore those awful shoes and has horrible bunions...she was even a shoe saleswomen back then! She used to try to get me to wear heels but I balked, they were uncomfortable and I was 5'10" already, now she says she's so glad I fought her on that topic.Quote:
Originally Posted by cylegoddess
Bunions can come from things other than wearing heels. I had bunion surgery in my early 20s (1990) because I have bio-mechanical issues according to the podiatrist who worked on me. My feet don't push off correctly and my ankles turn inward. I have NEVER worn heels. But my feet are genetically defective anyway. I was born with hammer toes. So I never wear sandals - my feet are so ugly. :rolleyes:
It's nice to have you back Lise!
Veronica
we noticed my younger son had some odd toes when he was a baby. we tried taping them (what a waste of time) and so today what he does is wear shoes as INFREQUENTLY as possible. Some of his toes do not lay the way they should, they're kind of sideways. but his feet themselves are very strong and muscular and i don't think he's going to have any serious problems. (unlike older generations in his family who have had to have surgery for their strange feet).
Get well soon Lise!
I think I'm just in the "genetically defective feet" camp with Veronica. My brother has horrible hammer toes. My second toe was way out of place because the big toe was way under it. So they also did a "tendon release" on the second toe to get it to lie down. As they're about to wheel me into surgery, I said, "isn't 'tendon release' just a euphemism for 'sever the tendon'?" Yes, indeed, it is. But there are two tendons in there, and the severed one grows back together...supposedly. Who cares. My toe lies down flat, the big toe isn't under it any more, and if you guys keep encouraging me, I'll post pictures! Noooooooooooooo! :eek: :p
Yessssssssssss!
OK, since Zen dared me...here you go. Pre-op, one week post-op, and about one month post-op (I think). Last picture was taken a few minutes ago. Oh, the lengths I'll go to for my fans. :p
Wow.
How could you even walk before?!
You must feel better already.
48 years on that foot. Of course, not much walking for the first two years...
It just got so painful that John told me, "Do something or stop complaining" (He insists he was much gentler and kinder, but that was the upshot). My hips hurt so badly that I couldn't sleep through the night, the foot hurt all the time, etc.
I do feel much better. It's amazing, though, how long it's taken. This week, I notice I can walk at my usual zippy pace, and it's not *as* swollen at the end of the day. I still take an Aleve every 12 hr, and Tylenol off and on.
Arn'cha glad I came back to TE and hijacked TD with Tales From the Foot Crypt?!? :p
Yup. We are glad. Even with macabre illustrations. :cool:
Those are some pictures, kiddo. Glad you're on the mend.
it's nice to see someone healing. there was no blood or anything.
i think my son's toes are kind of like yours but he doesn't have the big bump that you had. we're glad you're back, stitches and all.
here's the only toes picture i have of my son.
Wanna see what the scar looks like 25 years later? I was 19 when I had both done. :cool: (doing the Math, hmm more than 25 years... 30 years...)
Lise, amazing pictures . . . and my left foot is approaching what your pre-op picture looked like, so if it ever gets that severe I will be heartened to know that others have gone before, and met with good results. Foot surgery has always seemed like a bunch of voodoo to me.
Good luck with the continued recovery and fitness goals!
What - were you lazy or something?? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Lise
Yowza! Nice shots!
My new manager wants to meet to discuss my "career goals". Is retirement a career goal?
Damn right it is! Not sure if a manager would think so, but I sure do. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
Mimi, your son doesn't seem to have toes on the left there....
MP--Me? Lazy? Just unskilled from 1960-1962. I got my first tricycle in 1964. I remember riding it right off the edge of the sidewalk and toppling over. This didn't bode well for my triathlon career.
KG--so, how do the scars look, lo these many years?
Snap--you could say, "My goal is to get out of here without being sued." That always impresses the manager. :rolleyes: Good luck!
Snap-you could always tell them your goal is to make it to retirement so you can sit on a nice beach in Australia :D
I have an ooopps moment from this afternoon-Doggie & I ventured to the beach as we often do. Anyways, she normally is in the back tray of the ute attached to a shortish leash (i can take a pic, it's all humane :))..urmm today I forgot to attach her. I was about 1km from home at some traffic lights when i thought..Yukon shouldn't be standing that way in the back...:confused: :eek: Got onto the freeway a few sec's later, into the emergency lane & attached her properly...:o Poor doggie :( *phew*
Lise, I have to ask you..since you're a midwife...Do you think that women are forced & pressured to breastfeed by society?
I saw two articles the other day
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,25436945-2,00.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...apartment.html
In perth recently, a woman was asked to leave a high end restaurant after trying to breastfeed her young baby..so it never ends does it...
No idea why this interests me as i don't plan on having children but I feel sorry for those that do & encounter this issue.
Hi, CC, glad you realized the pup wasn't hooked up!
The breastfeeding stories touch a nerve with me. In short, I think:
-breast milk is normal human food.
-formula is for emergencies.
-we as a culture don't support, educate, and help new moms enough. I know this because I work on the front lines.
-that means access to HELP that comes to your home when things are not going right. That means not going back to a home where there's no help with daily activities. That means education about overcoming some of the simplest problems in breastfeeding. Etc, etc, etc.
-some women suffer from post partum psychosis, and it's tragic. The woman who leapt to her death probably had a number of contributing factors.
-the formula industry is a multi-billion dollar business which invests a lot in promoting the idea that mothers "shouldn't be forced" to breastfeed their babies.
-nutrition is the one thing that a mom can control during pregnancy and the first year of a child's life.
Those are my opinions as a midwife, since you asked. I'm not inviting anyone to defend or explain her own child rearing history or beliefs. Interesting how much ire this raises, though, isn't it?
I am SO going to use that at my next eval!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lise
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Originally Posted by Lise
Just kidding - in that I don't think many of us use our feet much the first 2 years! :p (I was in remedial PE in elementary school, so I can relate to the rest of it as well.)
Wow, interesting shaped feet!
No sandals? aawwwww, thats so sad!
Those guys feet look like my BFs. he never wears shoes, sun , rain. Im sure snow as well. My feet would be ...blue!
I was in remedial PE, too (in HS) because I "flunked" the physical fitness test. The test included such important skills such as a basketball shoot. So, I enrolled in the "flab lab," as we called it (though I weighed like 95 lbs) and in that class we ran, did sit ups and other core stuff. After 6 weeks, I outran all of the other girls who had failed the skills test, so I went back in regular PE.
I still can't get a basketball in a hoop or most of the other things that were on that test.
Lise - glad you're on the mend. My foot started to throb in symapthy for your foot, lol. I even had to take my socks off to look at my feet to compare. My right foot is the painful one but looks nothing like yours.
CC - I agree with Lise on the bfing. Boy did I struggle with my son and no one seemed to give a rip. I had to go looking for help and even then we didn't do it for more than a couple months. I was very disappointed.
Gotta go, my 9:00 client is here!
Well, I was on the other end of the spectrum. I chose to bottle feed (yes I am selfish; I wanted my DH to be able to get up in the middle of the night and do the feeding so I could sleep and not get sick) and got a lot of unsolicited comments from people. Not gonna start an argument about this, since it was over 20 years ago and my boys are normal healthy adults...
I was bottle fed. I think I'm fairly normal.
I don't think anyone should be questioning whatever the mother decides.
Veronica
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
I have a friend who wanted to breast feed. She tried and tried, but couldn't. (yes, she tried everything. There were medical reasons). She experienced a number of really rude comments. It's a personal choice, and sometimes we don't know the whole story.
yeah, are supposed to now list things we do to better ourselves. I listed a painting workshop and cycling and my boss got all fussy with me. :confused::mad: I told him, these things make me a better employee too.Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
He made me take them out.
When I was having babies, breast feeding was treated like outrageous behavior. I was one of the only moms to be that was going to "try" it when i had #1 son in the ward that weekend. (didn't have #2 son in hospital)
I am worried about the future of America where women can't give birth and can't breast feed! the statistics are incredibly frightening to me.
I had both my daughters in a very good hospital in Puerto Rico 27 and 30 years ago.
I was treated like a freak when I insisted on breastfeeding, and I had to really get tough to make them bring my babies to me every 2 hours to feed instead of waiting 4 hours like 'normal'. They said I probably didn't have enough milk (even though I was BURSTING with it). They also kept wanting to feed them glucose water in bottles- when I told them NO to that, they argued that my babies might get dehydrated if they didn't drink the sugar water bottles. !!! They tried to make me feel backwards and barbaric and unfit. Imagine!! :mad: Glad I stuck to my guns.
omigoodness i forgot the glucose!
my son never nursed the day we were in the hospital and i thought something was wrong with ME. The nurses had been giving him glucose every 4 hours. Without consulting me.
It's a good thing I checked out 24 hours after his birth which barely gave the proud daddy time to find some basics like a crib and some baby powder.. but that's another story!.
Tell us the story...
Did you have the baby really early?