I'm posting this in the "Gear" section because feet are fairly essential for walking and when they're faulty you get them repaired
Anyhow, I've just been to a chiropodist (a proper, medical one - not one of those that paints your toenails pretty colours!) for a foot MOT.
For a while now, on longer walks, I've been getting rather nasty blisters underneath some hard skin on the heels and soles of my feet. Luckily, they don't burst during the walk and I only discover them after I've got home (that "aaahhh" moment when they become unfettered from all sockage and bootage and can wriggle in naked freedom
).
The foot-fiddler sorted that lot out for me and informed me I have (had) some corns which I was totally unaware of
and also a mild fungal infection on my nails (double
). I thought I had pretty good feet really, barring the hard skin so this was all quite a revelation to me and we had a good chat about what causes all this lot (walking and feet encased in "sturdy" footwear for hours on end apparently
)
An hour later, I bounced out of there with new tootsies and advice to use Tea Tree Oil on the fungal nail infection and a pumice stone on the areas prone to hard skin, including where the corns were.
I'm looking forward to a walk on Sunday (albeit a local one) to test drive my new feet
I feel like I've gone down a shoe size now all that hard skin is gone