Wales - my Mum has dropped arches and wondered if it was the same thing, as apparently can affect all areas of the foot. Good to hear that someone else is in a similar situation in terms of clothes. Still, only one way to go - down!
Sunshine - your hair looked lovely blonde and brown - nice to be able to suit both. The regrowth isn't nice. Not sure I'll stay blonde because my natural colour has got darker over the years. I know it suits my face because I was this colour as a child, but if the regrowth is bad I'll go back to brown. I also think that deep down I don't feel quite right blonde - do you know what I mean? I feel more myself dark...so I can see that happening!!!
Lelly - thanks for that. Still going strong and enjoying it. Would be happy to carry on forever, but haven't checked scales, so will see how that goes a week today. Clothes don't feel especially looser, but not sure if that's because I'm used to almost dropping a dress size in the first week of CD!
Bess - yes, that's what I was thinking, the thrill bit. You hear stories about people inserting things where the sun don't shine. I think I'd probably stop and think to myself 'if this goes wrong, how's it going to look?!!?'
Butterfly - charity shops are great and I used them a lot of CD and will probably go back to them, but I think I just wanted something nice and new for work to look the part and I have to be so specific with my suits - basically they cannot attract animal hair and virtually all suits do! So I have to choose based on that lol. When assistants see me wandering around I must look very strange because I hardly look at the items, just touch them to see what they're made of!
Re the cut thumb - I was only putting on my tights...quite boring really, hope that doesn't disappoint!!! Dangerous activity putting on tights.
Re the foot - went to the chiropodist yesterday and it was a disaster. I felt like I was meeting the bloke from psycho - he looked like he might be unnaturally close to his Mum! BF came with me thankfully.
It was a set up in his house, which is fine, but it wasn't that clean, although he did sterilise everything. He was pleasant enough, just odd. Was telling me he did patients at the prison and talking about a prostitute whose feet he'd done - didn't know quite what to say!
Anyway, he didn't look at how I stand, or walk or anything. He just got me on the couch thing and looked at the toe that was hurting. He thought that I might have a growth under the nail, which would involve removing the nail to look. He said that he'd want to get a second opinion before doing that! Too right - you're not removing my toenail IN HERE and you're not coming anywhere near me with anesthetic!!!
I then said 'could it not be something to do with the way I walk, or my shoes being tight' and he said 'no, highly unlikely' and I said 'it's just that when I walk my little toe and the one next to it (which is the painful one) go under my foot quite a lot.'
So then he agreed it might be that...so I'm practically diagnosing myself. Also concerning that if it might be that, he hadn't even considered it and the alternative is removing my toenail, which he said might not grow back properly!!! Nice to know he's looking at all options before the most drastic.
So I made my excuses and left. He'd trimmed my toenails and filed them (which I can do myself) and charged me £20. Felt like a very expensive nail trim, but that was for the consultation, which was next to useless.
So no further on. Am going shopping today to get some wide shoes to wear for work to at least alleviate the pain before another chiropodist comes back to me. Have left a message for someone who works for the hospital down the road who looks a lot better. Wondering if I can get a referral from the doctor, but suspect that it will take longer to resolve and although it will be free I'll be in pain till then.
Got to go and buy cat litter today, shoes, get prescription (for antibiotics for dental surgery on Wed). Feel like I have a fair bit going on at the moment, but am coping with it more than usual. Definitely credit the diet with a lot of that for keeping my mood stable.
Am also reading a book that I highly recommend, called 'Don't sweat the small stuff.' It's all about not worrying about small stuff and that everything is small stuff. It has short, one page chapters, so am reading a few every day to let it sink in. They are good strategies for worriers. One that particularly helps me is thinking 'will this still upset/worry me in a year?'
