Whine...rant...pity poor me...
 

So this week has been quite a week. I finally broke down and got handicap license plates for the car so I could keep the placard in the van. I won't need them until the heat hits and then again when it turns cold. So I kept putting it off. I was okay with it until I got the form filed out by the neuro. Then it hit me and I was upset. :( I was okay again by the time I went for the plates themselves.

Since it's Spring and the birds are out singing, I have found I do have a little more energy. So I have been going for daily walks (2-3 miles!) and sometimes even go for a second short walk with my neighbor so we can chat. I have even lost a few pounds (wow!).

Yesterday half way through my morning walk I started getting a pain in the arch of my foot. This pain is getting worse and it's very difficult to walk. It feels like I bruised something inside my foot. :confused: I am doing the MS walk on Sunday so I cannot walk for the rest of the week. I want to rest my foot and hope it is better by Sunday.

It never fails, I start exercising and feeling good and something always happens. Usually my MS starts to misbehave and I expect that. But now I am having something new to deal with and it really ****** me off.

Okay I'm done now...:rolleyes:

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dear K,

it sounds like your foot may be something like plantar faciitis. i'm sure i sp'd it wrong. i had that once and i couldn't walk. the foot dr had to inject it. very painful.

i hope you get to do the walk. and good for you on the lbs. :)

I hope your foot feels better so you can do the walk.

Congratulations on not only the weight loss but how far you can walk in 1 shot! That's awesome! Although I have done the MS Walk a couple of times the realty is the MS Walk done me in by the 1st mile. Of course, stupid pride wouldn't let me stop and I kept up, very slowly, to the end. The fact that you can do 2 to 3 miles daily is just admirable!

Great job K! I'm proud of you.

I know what you mean. It's just another reminder, or wake up call, that this stupid disease is real! I don't have any words of wisdom... but I do care!:hug:

Hope the foot heals soon! I've had arthritis in my big toes for years and can understand how bad it hurts when there's a problem with your foot.

My foot feels slightly better this evening. Maybe by not doing my daily walks will help it heal faster. Unless it's something like plantar faciitis, then I'll end up at the foot doctor's. It really ticks me off because I am just getting to the point where my bursitis is manageable (after years of pain) and now something new!

Thanks for so much for all of your kind words.

Whe I had the plantar fasciaitis the podiatrist wrapped my foot to see if that helped, which it did immensley. Then he made special orthodics for my shoes which are worth thier weight in gold.

I'm so sorry about your poor foot, Karousel. :hug:

You are so good to go on the walks. I have yet to do one. (Was going to last year until I broke the ankle).

Proud of you for doing 2-3 miles daily! Woohoo for you! I hope the foot heals quickly so you can continue walking and losing weight. You are so good!

Once I pay off my root canal, I'm going back to my podiatrist who diagnosed the arthritis in my toes and get him to make the orthotics he offered to make me last winter. They're supposed to help the arthritis in my big toes. (broke both toes, not at the same time, and that's where I got the arthritis)

I already have orthodics for my bursitis! So I really hope this is just something I strained. :(

I never would have started except after my best friend's husband starting doing the walks the year they got married. I was so touched that this man who barely knew me was willing to do this. So my DH and I started walking with them and we have been doing it every since - over 10 years now. The last two years I wasn't feeling up to it so I just volunteered. Last year I missed the walk so much I told myself I was walking this year no matter what. So if I walk Sunday it will be in pain - oh well, it's not going to stop me!

I figure it's only 6 miles and they have vehicles that can take me back at any time. :D Besides the walk we used to do here in my home town was 10 miles and we used to do it in April in the snow and freezing rain. Wait...up hill both ways...with no shoes....:winky: (had to exaggerate on that last line!)

Getting orthodics for the bursitis did help me quite a bit. Then he gave me these wonderful little green pills that helps even more! I love my podiatrist. :D

You know what, I'm proud of me too and it's so nice to hear it from others. I think if I keep thinking this way, I may just keep feeling better!! It's nice to feel better after the winter I had! And I know all of you know what I mean...being understood is so nice.

((((((((((((((karousel))))))))))))))

I'm proud of you too! Hope your foot is feeling better. We DO understand. :)

My foot is still hurting but I did make it the 6 miles today at the MS Walk. It was a beautiful day and it was so nice to see so many people there walking and raising money.

WooooHoooo for Youuuuuu!!!

Soak your leetle foot in epsom salts and call me in the morning.:D

hugsssss, maybe the walks were too much length at first... I do this each spring, or did in past, I would get going on longer and faster walks.. then would get shin splint one year, the planter facilitits or something...

rest it and hoping the walk today was good, hugss,sarah

sarah - that's the way it always goes! Just when I'm getting somewhere BAM something hurts!!! Guess that's the way the cookie crumbles...mmmm cookie....

lol cookies...

I am trying to get some walking in, and the PT sure is making me work out... so if I eat healthier too maybe I can lose some weight... got lots of pudge around middle that has gotten worse in past two years.. not sure if meds or less activity... hugss,sarah

Woohoo for you, Karousel! :You-Rock: Proud of you, girl! :hug: