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If I had only known then what I know now. Last Summer in the PNW was a warm one. Warm weather often leads to a swelling of the feet for me, and so it was last year. I had bought some cute slip on gatas from Land's End. They were made of a light weight canvas, and were not stretchy at all. I noticed, when I took them off at night, that there was a big imprint on my foot where the shoe had been. That puffiness on my foot was edema. It never occurred to me what kind of damage this was doing. I had noticed that the balls of my feet were sore during the day, but after having learned to sublimate pain that comes with muscle spasms over the 30+ years I have lived with MS, I just accepted the pain, not giving it much thought. What was happening, however, was that I was getting pressure sores on the balls of my feet that were cause by the swelling.  When I went to see a Dr. for something un-related, I mentioned the pain, and she examined my feet. The next thing I knew, I was referred t...

Hello dear readers; I hope I haven't lost all of you as it has been so long since I have posted anything. My thought was, if I don't have anything good to say, better not to say anything at all ... but that leaves me here trying to catch you all up on my current situation in which not all is bad. (Now wait a few minutes while I refresh my memory on what you already know - I'll be back in a few...) All right, then. So, in January I started getting a chore worker for 66 hours a month. I started out with Gayle, who stayed with me until the end of the month when she had to leave because of a paperwork snafu. In February, while she was gone, her replacement was Joanna who was young and clueless about the job. She would silently walk into where I was and just stand there. I would look up and say, "What do you need, Joanna?" "I just wanted to know what you wanted me to do next." "Well, take your pick: you could dust, vacuum, find  some laundry and put...