Billye:

Alan is a security guard two nights a week. Because he has to wear this contraption, he doesn't want anyone to see it on him. That's why the uniform pants have to go OVER the boot. They hide the boot. The only thing that sticks out from under the bottom of the pants is the bottom of the shoe boot and it looks likes Alan is wearing a sandal.

Last night when Alan showed up for guard duty, the supervisor happened to be there. Alan kept thinking "what if he looks down and sees I'm wearing one regulation uniform shoe, and my other shoe is the Shoe Boot thing"

But that didn't happen. The guy didn't notice Alan's feet.

But I get you on the knee-hi thing. I went to check out the TEDS at my local drug store. They were right near the support hose.

I opened the box and they looked exactly like a pair of knee-hi's (maybe with a little more compression to them). And they cost $27.99. I don't think so.

So I walked over to the Big/Tall Man shop that is not to far from my house. There are two of them within two blocks of each other.

I walk into the first one and I say "Okay, here's what I need, I need a tall pair of men's socks, stretchy like diabetic socks, but reaching to the knee". The guy says "I have exactly what you need" and he produces the longest pair of socks I have ever seen. They looked like they would fit a basketball player. I examined them and there was no stretch to them. They were just long men's dress socks and they did not have the stretchability of diabetic socks. So I simply said "Okay, let me make this simple, you know diabetic socks??, well I want really long diabetic socks, up to the knee".

The guy says "oh, they don't make those!!!" and I said "why not, don't the companies know that 6'8 inch people who have diabetes will need really long diabetic socks"??? The guy laughed and said "well, if they make them, I don't sell them". Then he told me to go to the store two blocks away. Another guy followed me there because he was looking for some long socks also.

So we go into the second Tall/Big Men's store, and I begin my search for a pair of super long diabetic socks. The guy says "They don't make them".

So I leave and I find myself in front of a fabric store. A lightbulb goes off in my head and I say "I don't need socks, I need some felt that I can place on Alan's shin, so there will be no rubbing".

So I go in, pay $2.00 for this nice comfortable piece of felt. Tonight, Alan will cut it to fit his boot and all will be accomplished.

And he will never wear those compression things again.

PROBLEM SOLVED!!! Yes indeed

lol

Melody