Thoughts on my feet

 (A photo of the lovely Lane children)

I've always had weird issues with my feet.  We haven't always gotten along throughout our years of being together.  but I must say, in spite of our issues I am kind of attached.  Here are a few things that have either gone wrong or have just...happened with me and my feet.

• The growth plates in my toes closed early.  Each of my toes is almost half the size that they should be.  When the Dr. found out he told me that I had "shrimp toes." Personally, I don't mind having shorty toes and I'm pretty fond of their height.  Sometimes I look at them and worry that they have grown.  I don't know what I would do with myself if that happened.  
• I broke my heal from jumping into.......a SWIMMING POOL......yes, a swimming pool when I was on a family vacation driving across the United States. CA to NC.  
• I don't know exactly how I old I was...but a lonnnng time ago I got a plantar wart on the bottom of my foot and was stuck with it....forever. I had it surgically cut out at least five times, injected it with shots of chemo.  experienced what it felt like to have my foot numbed from the top down.  (yes, that means a needle was put through the top of my foot into the bottom.) and last but not least, in 2008 when the numbing and cutting holes into the bottom of my foot was too painful and inconvenient to deal with every few months, the dr. decided to put me to sleep and cut it out deeply so that it would finally go away.  Instead, I went into anaphylactic shock from an allergic reaction to anti biotics, was pumped full of steroids to counter it and keep me alive, and the wart came back a few months later.  I think he's finally given up though.  I've conquered our long little battle.  =)
• I also have low blood circulation in my hands and feet so when I get cold my toes go completely numb, turn white or blue and take a long time to warm back up.  Ive had blisters under my skin on my big toes a few times from being so cold.
• And last, I tore the ligament in my foot while running last new year's eve and didn't take care of it until the very end of  January.  It was...uncomfortable.  

So there's a few of our issues.  And I know you are probably thinking "What is the point?  Why are you blogging about your feet?  Stop.  It's gross." But the bottom line is that I love my feet, everything that's happened to them and all.   I love that I can wiggle my toes and wear slippers and super soft socks and make them warm and I love that I can paint my toenails and wear sandals and get tan lines on them.  I know this is random and I understand that it's a little bit gross to talk about feet, but I was putting lotion on them a few minutes ago and started thinking about everything that has happened involving them and that I was actually grateful for it all.  That's it.  =)