I'm about to chop into the PM's!

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I'm about fed up. Darbi has a sore on her heel. Her non-CF heel. I

*think* perhaps she got a blister in the first couple of weeks she wore

them. I didn't really notice but mom said she noticed it before she put

her shoes on the weekend the kids were all gone. So that would mean I put

them on too loose. It was loose skin on her heel, looked like a popped

blister to mom. No fluid just skin. Mom mentioned it to me a few days

after I'd got them home and I said yes, I saw it too. Of course it was

more of a sore then and I didn't even think to ask what it looked like to

mom till this afternoon. So now I have the info that it was a

blister. I'd thought she put them on too loose that weekend but it now

looks like it was me and I totally missed it. I have been trying to heal

it ever since. Nothing I do helps other than not wearing the shoes. Every

time I put them back on no matter how tight I make them or what I put over

it to cushion it... it's worse the next morning and she cries in the middle

of the night and says owie. I have taken them off at night I don't know

how many times because I know it's hurting and I can't do anything about

it. Same last night, I took them off at about 4am so her and I could

sleep. She tried, but kept waking up. When I looked at her foot this

morning it was again red and angry and even bigger. It was almost healed

yesterday (like I haven't seen that before...) and I made it worse again

last night. She's so not happy with these shoes! That must be why she

never liked them in the first place. I am thinking it was me, but it could

be partially a problem with the shoe itself. The left one is the one that

the tongue slips out all the time and it doesn't line up properly like the

other shoe does. Something's weird either with the fit of her left foot or

the shoe has something wrong but it really does not fit like the other one

does at all.

Today I marked on a bandaid where the sore was with a crayola marker and

stuck her foot into the shoe to see where it's hitting. I will take pics

tonight. I gotta go right now. But it's the part where the bottom of the

leather in the back pushes into the heel area. Right above the thicker

part of the insole at the heel. Basically the exact place she got a sore

from her first pair of Markell's. But a bit to the side inside the shoe.

So I'm about to chop out that back area but I worry the edge will make

things worse. I suppose I should call and get his input before I

start chopping them up. She's not going to wear them tonight. I may even

put her back in her Markell's. If that doesn't work I might just chop out

the heel in those since I know they will hold up. Any ideas? I've done

all the things I could think of short of making a heel hole already, I feel

lost with this now...

Kori

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I'm about fed up. Darbi has a sore on her heel. Her non-CF heel. I

*think* perhaps she got a blister in the first couple of weeks she wore

them. I didn't really notice but mom said she noticed it before she put

her shoes on the weekend the kids were all gone. So that would mean I put

them on too loose. It was loose skin on her heel, looked like a popped

blister to mom. No fluid just skin. Mom mentioned it to me a few days

after I'd got them home and I said yes, I saw it too. Of course it was

more of a sore then and I didn't even think to ask what it looked like to

mom till this afternoon. So now I have the info that it was a

blister. I'd thought she put them on too loose that weekend but it now

looks like it was me and I totally missed it. I have been trying to heal

it ever since. Nothing I do helps other than not wearing the shoes. Every

time I put them back on no matter how tight I make them or what I put over

it to cushion it... it's worse the next morning and she cries in the middle

of the night and says owie. I have taken them off at night I don't know

how many times because I know it's hurting and I can't do anything about

it. Same last night, I took them off at about 4am so her and I could

sleep. She tried, but kept waking up. When I looked at her foot this

morning it was again red and angry and even bigger. It was almost healed

yesterday (like I haven't seen that before...) and I made it worse again

last night. She's so not happy with these shoes! That must be why she

never liked them in the first place. I am thinking it was me, but it could

be partially a problem with the shoe itself. The left one is the one that

the tongue slips out all the time and it doesn't line up properly like the

other shoe does. Something's weird either with the fit of her left foot or

the shoe has something wrong but it really does not fit like the other one

does at all.

Today I marked on a bandaid where the sore was with a crayola marker and

stuck her foot into the shoe to see where it's hitting. I will take pics

tonight. I gotta go right now. But it's the part where the bottom of the

leather in the back pushes into the heel area. Right above the thicker

part of the insole at the heel. Basically the exact place she got a sore

from her first pair of Markell's. But a bit to the side inside the shoe.

So I'm about to chop out that back area but I worry the edge will make

things worse. I suppose I should call and get his input before I

start chopping them up. She's not going to wear them tonight. I may even

put her back in her Markell's. If that doesn't work I might just chop out

the heel in those since I know they will hold up. Any ideas? I've done

all the things I could think of short of making a heel hole already, I feel

lost with this now...

Kori