New Shoes

I recently went to the doctor because I've been having some knee problems. (I am an old woman now, and apparently, my future is full of joint failure. Sad.) I didn't think the doc could really do anything for me, but I went so that I could continue to whine to Somebody's Mother about my knee hurting.

Anyway, one of the things the doc told me to do was to buy new shoes.

I would've felt better about his instructions if he had been willing to finance those new shoes for me (unemployed + living in an expensive city + needing high-quality athletic shoes = OUCH!) but I survived. I ordered a few pairs online through Zappos, which does free shipping both ways (YAY!) so that I could try on the shoes and send back the ones I didn't like. After much deliberation, I finally committed to a pair of new shoes (it would take a whole different blog to talk about my commitment issues) and today, I wore them outside for the first time. Now, I'm committed and can't return them. I'm pretty happy with them. They are definitely much squishier than my last shoes, so they should make my knee a bit happier. Tomorrow, I'm going to ride the bus over to the park (not that the park is far away at all, but this way I can confine my exercise to a softer surface to be gentle with my knee for a bit).

When LL was visiting, we walked a LOT and I really enjoyed it, so I'm looking forward to being able to get out and exercise a bit more in my new shoes.

Moral of the story: even though it can be expensive, we have to do the things in our lives to facilitate being able to be the healthy women we want to be.