Actually, I came up with the name "compressed toes", because Alan's toes are all squished together (especially the one with the tailor bunions).

Now in comparison, my toes look nothing like Alan's toes, my toes are not curved (like his pinky toes) and that's where he has the neuropathy.

And when we do the spongy thingees, well it gives him a lot of relief.

But.... and this is very telling, if he sits in the chair for a long period, lets' say over 3 hours, then he starts to get the burning between the toes. But it's much much better, and initially, when he puts the sponges in, he is just fine. And when he puts on his propets (the sponges are in his toes), well, he walks just fine, (he walks slowly because he doesn't want to get the ulcer back).

But the one thing I do not understand is what happened when he went to bed last night.

He got up off the living room chair, (sponges still on), he came to bed at 11:30 (I was sleeping). I get up at 2 a.m. to do my thing, and I notice the air condition is on in the bedroom. It was not on when I went to sleep.

This morning when we woke up, I said "when did you put the air conditioning on"? He said "I couldn't sleep when I laid down, my toes hurt, but once I put the air conditioning on, all the pain went away". He is fine today.

So can someone explain how spongy thingees between the toes work when he is going to sit for a spell, when he walks, but when he lies down, and it's hot in our room, he can't sleep because of the PN pain, but once the room gets cooler, he was just fine and drifted off.

This I just don't get (and probably you could explain sensory stuff to me, and the barometer and it will still go over my head).

This part of the PN (where you have to change the environment settings of the room, well, it's a mystery to me). It used to be that when we had a hard rain (I mean a big thunderstorm) and the ions changed in the weather, he would sigh and go, "oh, it must be raining, my feel feel great"

Someone explained the ion thing to me and I think I understood it but what's with having to turn on the air conditioning last night?

Thanks to anyone who has a clue.

Melody