My feet have been giving me problems lately. Whenever I wear shoes that lack significant arch support, I find that I can barely walk by the end of the day. I don't know if it's Plantar Fasciitis, which is a painful condition in the heel and arch area, or if I just tore the tendon or muscle in the arch. All I know is that it hurts. During the last few days at my mom's house, the pain would make its way from my right arch to my right hip. It's like the the pain in my foot is throwing my whole body off. It doesn't help that my mom pulled up the urine-stained carpet all over her house without having another type of floor to replace it. Cement and ceramic tile floors just aren't friendly to damaged arches.This past summer I found a pair of sandals at Walmart--somewhere that 10 years ago I wouldn't be caught dead in buying a pair of shoes--that had amazing arch support, Earth Spirit. I wore those things until I wore the arch support out. Last week, I managed to get my mom's computer to work long enough to see if Earth Spirit made winter shoes--boots, moccasins, basically anything other than sandals. They did, but I couldn't find anything smaller than a 6 online. I asked my mom if I found a smaller size at Walmart and bought them, would she pay me back and call it an early Christmas present. She said she would so while I was at Walmart this morning, exchanging the stupid Christmas lights with the white cord for the green cord version, I cut through the shoe section. To my surprise, Walmart actually had a 5.5 in stock in Earth Spirit boots. Believe me when I say they never have a 5.5 in stock in the Earth Spirit brand or otherwise. I took their availability as a sign, tried them on, and found that they had the same arch support as my sandals. Needless to say, I threw them in the buggy the minute I took them off.
Now I just want it to stop raining so I can wear them somewhere (I don't want to the water to ruin the suede) and see what kind of a difference they make in my foot pain.
