Re: summer blues

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Suzanne,

I also teach and I find the pain often hard to deal with at work. I

have foot pain but I also have terrible pain in my hands. Do you

find that your PA can interfere with your teaching? I have a hard

time holding the chalk somedays and I drop it at least 3 times a

week. When teh pain is really bad I can feel myself not being as nice

or as patient as I normally am. A few years ago my impatience made a

girl cry. I still feel terrible.

I have to constantly move my fingers or they will cramp up and become

terribly painful. A few months ago I found a not from a nice girl to

a friend that made fun of me for my hand movements. (I had thought

they were subtle) I don't want to be my students best friend but

that made me feel like it is interfering more thatn I had thought if

my students are distracted by may hands.

I have historically had problems with my feet and I just recently

figured out that I have arthritis in them. You are on the right

track with sporty shoes. I have fornd Merrel to be wonderful for my

feet, for winter they make " snow clogs " or sometimes they are called

" after sport shoes " you can get them in black/other dark colors so it

doesn't really look like an incredibly casual shoe. Another brand is

Solomn and both of these make summer shoes, but I am unsure of

color. As for your coloegues you may want to tell them that you have

to wear sporty shoes for health reasons. Other shoes I have found

helpful are Easy Spirit and other brands like that.

Have a Nice Day!

Kate

> > While I seem to be in more pain when the weather is

> > wet and cold, the

> > swelling is worse for me too when it is hot. Last

> > summer the toes on my

> > left foot were so swollen that I had to give up any

> > attempt to dress up for

> > work and resorted to anything that would allow me to

> > wear a cross trainer

> > running shoe with very wide toe space. Even sandals

> > were out because the

> > straps were cutting into my feet. All this just a

> > week before a trip to

> > Disneyland. It's amazing I remember that trip at

> > all because I was living

> > on demerol which was the only thing that allowed me

> > to be on the go. So,

> > when the weather heats up, I'm asking for

> > Prednisone. It's the only way I'm

> > going to survive without a need for narcotic meds.

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> > Now that spring is here, my toes are getting up to

> > their old tricks again.

> > Maybe I should get a job in the antarctic this

> > summer

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