High Arches

I have high foot arches.  Turns out that's a good thing and a bad thing.  High arches can make you a better athlete.  Able to run faster, jump higher, etc.  However it can also lead to major feet problem.  For the past few weeks I've been in a lot of pain.  It hurts to walk.  It hurts to have my feet touching the ground.  Heck it hurts to lie in bed.  My feet just hurt.  Turns out it's those danged arches.  Having high arches has caused me to walk with most of my weight on my outer four toes instead of the big toe like you are supposed to.  So at the moment I have three different issues going on with my feet.  Well technically four if you count the bone spurs that are starting to grow.  However they can all be fixed, easily, by the same thing.  Yay!

I got a cool plaster cast made of my feet today and am having a set of custom orthotics made.  Who woulda thunk it.  So in a couple weeks I'll have a nice new set of orthotics and hopefully have purchased a new pair of shoes to go with them.  I've always worn shoes with no arch support.  The podiatrist wasn't suprised by this as he readily agreed that it would have caused me pain.  Phew.  Thought I'd be chewed out for that!  So I need to get me a pair of shoes that the orthotics will fit in.  It will be an interesting adjustment, but one that I am looking forward to.  I've got a lot of hope that this will help my knees strenthen up more too.  I'm glad that I went in today.  I was nervous about what the doctor would say.  Hopefully I'll soon be able to get out and move more with my kids without the side effect of not being able to walk the next day.