Pass the Awesome! An experiment about life and the way it moves me |
I have bad feet. Real nasty vial things. But they get me around this earth, so I need to treat them well. But, well, they are shaped like MY feet. Most shoes however, are not. There in lies the problem. The prospect of shoe shopping can fill me with dread. I can try on shoes for hours (plural) and come home with nothing. this is common.
I used to walk like a duck for the first 20 or so years of my life. I also pronate heavily. This has caused bunions, bunions that are visibly getting worse as time goes on. So I have wide feet. Rather I have wide toes. I have an average rest of my foot. But I need wides to fit my bunion. But wide shoes are generally made to fit fat feet. I don't have fat feet. So my feet slip around in some shoes, and my bunion is simply compressed in most others. The shoes that fit my bunion generally are not supportive because they are made for fat feet. this allows me to pronate heavily, making my foot problems worse... I went out today with a dread filled mind, fully prepared to come home exhausted and depressed. This did not happen. I went to a red wing shoe store. I tried on boots, and shoes. king toe boots are a nice option. I tried out decent orthotics for the first time. Holy Balls! They make all the difference! they make it like you are wearing a completely different shoe, and completely alter how you walk (I need this) I may not have grabbed a pair of 200 boots of the shelf just yet, but I may be doing just that in the near future. That and a pair or two of orthotics. The two employees at redwing were super easy to work with and I actually had my first ever pleasant shoe shopping experience in my life. Enjoyable shoe shopping! Blows my mind. Gives me hope for my future feetsies. You might not be F'in screwed after all!
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